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local development environment, and the management portal that access
and manage all these components.
Windows Azure provides computing capabilities through four com-
puting components: Web sites, cloud services, virtual machines, and
mobile services. At present, there are data centers located in eight regions
(Figure11.7), including U.S. East (Virginia), U.S. West (California), U.S.
North Central (Illinois), U.S. South Central (Texas), EU North (Ireland),
EU West (Netherlands), Asia East (Hong Kong), and Asia Southeast
(Singapore).
Windows Azure has an independent data service, which provides the
capabilities to store, manage ...