Introduction

Microsoft Azure is a comprehensive set of building blocks that can used as standalone or mixed services to get complex systems and services. Infrastructure-as-a-Service blocks, as virtual machines and/or virtual networks, in spite of being very common in the IT vendors' scenario, are actually great services. Today, the real value-added service in the cloud computing momentum is PaaS (Platform-as-a-Service).

The Azure Website is an advanced PaaS platform to deploy complex web applications to the cloud, without having a steep learning curve, thus leveraging the existing skill sets. Think about Websites as simple FTP-like endpoints, where we can upload our site's contents (binaries or just plain text/resources) and let them run as they are. In addition, websites offer enterprise-level services, such as scaling, backup, monitoring, logging, and more, around this simple deploy-and-go concept. Last but not least, these Websites provide the capability to deploy applications...