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Building Web Services with Windows Azure (new)

You're reading from   Building Web Services with Windows Azure (new) Quickly develop scalable, REST-based applications or services and learn how to manage them using Microsoft Azure

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781784398378
Length 322 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface Introduction FREE CHAPTER 1. Getting Started with the ASP.NET Web API 2. Extending the ASP.NET Web API 3. API Management 4. Developing a Web API for Mobile Apps 5. Connecting Applications with Microsoft Azure Service Bus 6. Creating Hybrid Services 7. Data Services in the Cloud – an Overview of ADO.NET and Entity Framework 8. Data Services in the Cloud – Microsoft Azure Storage 9. Data Services in the Cloud – NoSQL in Microsoft Azure Index

Microsoft Azure Storage

Microsoft Azure Storage is one of the main components of Microsoft Azure. It offers cloud storage in a scalable and redundant way. It can store petabytes of data of any kind: files, logs, images, videos, and so on. At the same time, Microsoft Azure Storage is flexible and its load balancing system can easily handle traffic of any volume. Microsoft Azure Storage is a powerful option when you need reliable data storage that can be consumed from every platform and is accessible 24/7.

Microsoft Azure Storage provides three options for redundancy for its services:

  • Locally Redundant Storage (LRS): All data in the storage account replicates synchronously to three different storage nodes within the primary region that was chosen when creating the storage account.
  • Geo Redundant Storage (GRS, the default option): All data in the storage account replicates synchronously within the primary region. All data also replicates asynchronously to a secondary region (hundreds of miles...
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