Scenarios where we can use Windows Azure Platform?

Key Scenarios where we can use Windows Azure Platform?

Please remember one point, cloud computing is not the ONLY best option for all scenarios. It suits best for some key scenarios. 

One can leverage Azure platform in various scenarios, few thoughts:

• Speed to Market: Small vendors or initial startup company can utilize windows azure platform to deploy their application without worrying about the infrastructure. Based on the application popularity they can scale up the platform.
• Peak Load (Predictable and unpredictable): Enterprise applications can utilize windows azure platform especially during peak load. For instance, in support.xbox.com site, the load is at its peak during Christmas Holiday season. We can’t just add more hardware just for few weeks, unless we have something like Azure where one can scale up or down the hardware in minutes with very less cost. Another best example would be IRCTC, Indian railway online ticket booking web site, this will be always at its peak at 8.00 – 8.30 A.M (that’s the time Tatkal is open), Azure is a place where we can set such that only for this specific time frame to scale the hardware resources to serve the end client.
• Limited Time frame: In scenarios where we want to expose an application for only specific time frame. For instance, a movie release, the web site provides all the movie information review etc. This site will exist for minimal duration depends on film.
• Scalability: Scenarios where one no need to worry about capacity planning. Increase or reduce the capacity real time.
• Heavy Computing: Scenarios where you need to do large scale processing like analytics. You can leverage cloud for infinite computing capacity.

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