Using the Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service
The Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service provides a fully managed Caching service to services hosted in Windows Azure. The Caching service is essentially a cloud-based version of the Windows Server AppFabric Caching service. The Windows Azure version does not support all the features of the Windows Server version, but it does so in a way that does not require the cluster management needed by the Windows Server version. The Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service uses the same API as the Windows Server AppFabric Caching service. However, it is implemented in separate assemblies, so that authentication and unsupported features are handled appropriately.
The Windows Azure AppFabric Caching service supports cache sizes between 128 MB and 4 GB. The cache size is associated with service quotas on the number of transactions per hour, bandwidth MB per hour, and the number of concurrent connections. Usage exceeding these limits is throttled.
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