Chapter 3. Design and implement cloud services

The Cloud Services feature is part of the Microsoft Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering. Cloud Services offers the ability to deploy websites and asynchronous work to Azure servers with simpler deployment options and without the need to manage complex networking and operating system updates. A cloud service is a mechanism for packaging, deploying, and configuring one or more websites (web roles) or asynchronous workers (worker roles).

A cloud service project allows you to group these roles into a single deployment package and to indicate with configuration how websites and workers should be distributed in terms of physical servers and topology. You build a website as you normally would and ...

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