Consumer
Develop rich consumer and social applications that are ready for massive scale
When you are building social or consumer focused applications you need to be ready for millions of users in a short period of time. Scale fast or fail fast, as the saying goes. To succeed you need a robust, scalable, and easy-to-manage cloud platform.
Users demand real-time experiences and have little patience for slow applications. Windows Azure provides consumer and social application developers with high-performance on-demand compute, storage, content delivery and networking capabilities so that they can focus on the code and not the infrastructure.
Because Windows Azure is an open and flexible platform, you can take advantage of these capabilities with the programming languages and application runtimes of your choice. Windows Azure Marketplace provides services that let you quickly add new capabilities like automatic language translation using the Bing Translator API.
Windows Azure lets you easily combine new code, third-party services or open source solutions to help you get to market faster.
Compute
Ensure availability of your application by easily scaling compute resources to match your demand curve and only paying for what you need.
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Storage
Deliver high performance services with simple to use queues, databases, and blob storage services.
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CDN
Deliver assets like images, videos, or any other content to your users faster with the Windows Azure Content Distribution Network (CDN). Globally distributed CDN nodes enable the lowest possible latency for your customers.
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Cache
Accelerate your applications with a high performance, low-latency cache.
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Identity
Allow your users to login to your application using Windows Live ID, Google, Facebook or a number of other identity providers to reduce password fatigue and increase user retention.
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