The Azure™ Services Platform is an Internet-scale cloud services platform hosted in Microsoft data centers, which provides an operating system and a set of developer services that can be used individually or together. It reduces the need for up-front technology purchases, and it enables developers to quickly and easily create applications running in the cloud using their existing skills.
The Microsoft .NET Service Bus supports a range of connectivity options. In
this screencast, see how multicast is supported through a series of code
examples and sample applications.
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Windows Azure features a very powerful, yet simple deployment model. By focusing on your application and abstracting away the infrastructure details, you can deploy almost any app with minimal fuss.
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The Windows Azure SDK provides a development fabric that provides a cloud on your desktop. In this screencast, learn how to debug your Windows Azure applications in this environment.
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If you are looking to get started developing with the Live Framework, this is the place to start! In this screencast you'll learn how to get a Live Services token and what you need to download in order to start writing Live Framework applications.
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The Live Framework Resource Model is a simple, straightforward information model based on entities, collections and relationships. In this brief screencast you'll learn how to navigate the relationships between entities by using the Live Framework Resource Browser, which is a tool that ships with the Live Framework SDK.
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.NET Services are a set of highly scalable building blocks for programming in the cloud. In this brief screencast, you'll learn about the registration process, the SDK and the built-in samples everything you need to know in order to get started.
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The .NET Service Bus makes it easy to access your Web services no matter where they are. In this brief screencast, you'll see how to take a basic Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) service and expose it to the Internet with the .NET Service Bus.
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With the recent release of the the CTP (Community Technical Preview) of SQL Azure, it seemed an ideal time for David Gristwood to sit down with SQL guru Keith Burns and have a chat with him about data in the cloud, this new version of SQL Server, what it means for developers and systems designers, and how to get started.
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Windows Azure provides a built-in framework for writing log messages from your applications. In this screencast, you'll learn how to use the Windows Azure logging API and how to read log messages whether your application is running in the development fabric or in the cloud.
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In this screencast, learn how to add create and store custom types in Live Mesh using the Live Framework SDK.
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In this screencast, see how you can connect to and interact with the Live Framework from a PHP application built using Eclipse.
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Windows Workflow Foundation provides a platform for using managed code to defined work as composable, reusable parts. With .NET Services, you can host your workflow in the cloud and access it from anywhere. In this screencast, see the basics of taking a simple workflow and deploying it to the cloud.
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The Microsoft .NET Service Bus supports a range of connectivity options. In this screencast, see how multicast is supported through a series of code examples and sample applications.
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As an open platform, Windows Azure offers choices to developers. It allows
them to use multiples languages (.NET, PHP, Ruby, Python or Java) and
development tools (Visual Studio or Eclipse) to build applications that run
on Windows Azure and/or consume any of the Windows Azure platform offerings
from any other cloud or on premise platform.
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The Identity Developer Training Course represents the unbundling of the
Identity Developer Training Kit: all the labs documentation is now unfolded
and hosted by Channel9 on the public internet, ready to answer YOUR queries
right when you need it.
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Kit includes a comprehensive set of
technical content including hands-on labs, presentations, and demos that are
designed to help you learn how to use the Windows Azure platform including:
Windows Azure, SQL Azure and .NET Services.
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Check out how Microsoft's strategic application of people, processes, technologies, and experience with consumer and enterprise security has resulted in continuous improvements to the security practices and policies of the Microsoft cloud infrastructure and our online services.
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Get an early look into the Azure Services Platform in this whitepaper by David Chappell. Learn why using computers in the cloud can make lots of sense for your organization. Rather than buying and maintaining your own machines, why not exploit the acres of Internet-accessible servers available today?
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Part of the larger Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure is a platform for running Windows applications and storing data in the cloud. Wherever they run, applications are built on some kind of platform. For on-premises applications, this platform usually includes an operating system, some way to store data, and perhaps more. Applications running in the cloud need a similar foundation. That's the goal of Microsoft’s Windows Azure.
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Windows Azure Table provides scalable, available, and durable structured storage in the form of tables. The tables contain entities, and the entities contain properties. The tables are scalable to billions of entities and terabytes of data, and may be partitioned across thousands of servers. This paper describes the basic concepts and the advanced features of Windows Azure Table.
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Windows Azure Storage provides durable, scalable, available, secure, and performance-efficient storage services for the cloud, and it does this through familiar and easy-to-use programming interfaces. Windows Azure Blob provides a simple interface for storing named files along with metadata for a file. This paper describes the Windows Azure Blob programming interface and the advanced blob concepts.
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WebsiteSpark is a program that offers visibility, support, and software for
professional Web Developers and Designers. Visit the site to learn more.
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The Windows Azure Platform Training Course includes a comprehensive set of
technical content including samples, demos, hands-on labs, and presentations
that are designed to expedite the learning process for the set of
technologies released as part of the Windows Azure Platform.
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This overview paper introduces Microsoft® .NET Services, each of its building block services, and how they fit together.
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Windows Azure Storage provides durable, scalable, available, secure, and performance-efficient storage services for the cloud, and it does this through familiar and easy-to-use programming interfaces. Windows Azure Queue provides reliable storage and delivery of messages for an application. This paper describes the Windows Azure Queue programming interface and the advanced queue concepts.
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This whitepaper shows developers how to use a claims-based identity model and the Microsoft .NET Access Control Service – part of the Microsoft .NET Services family – to implement single sign-on, federated identity, and role based access control in Web applications and services.
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This whitepaper shows developers how to use the .NET Service Bus – part of the Microsoft .NET Services family – to provide a secure, standards-based messaging fabric to connect applications across the Internet.
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This whitepaper provides details about the Microsoft .NET Workflow Service, its relation to Windows Workflow Foundation, and what developers need to know to begin building workflows for the cloud. It not only explains the current tools and capabilities but also outlines the vision for future releases.
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Trying out the Azure services is free, however a token is required to gain access to some of the services.
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The Microsoft Online Security Features whitepaper describes how Microsoft's concern for security, as defined in the Trustworthy Computing initiative, has driven key features in the design, deployment, and operation of the Microsoft Online Services environment.
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The Microsoft .NET Services Client Redistributable provides everything you need to run applications that use Microsoft .NET Services.
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Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio® extend Visual Studio to enable the creation, building, debugging, running and packaging of scalable services on Windows Azure. Installation includes the Windows Azure SDK.
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The Windows Azure SDK provides developers with the APIs, tools, documentation, and samples needed to develop Internet-scale applications that run on Windows Azure. Using the Windows Azure SDK, developers can create applications and run it in a local development fabric even without a registered account.
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The Microsoft .NET Services SDK provides developers with the APIs, tools, documentation, and samples needed to develop applications that take advantage of the Access Control Service, Workflow Service and the Service Bus.
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This open source project, announced in May, is an effort to bridge PHP developers to Windows Azure. PHPAzure is an open source project to provide software development kit for Windows Azure and Windows Azure Storage – Blobs, Tables, and Queues.
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Explore the Live Framework Documentation to learn more about the Live Framework or register to access the Live Framework SDK.
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The Microsoft .NET Services offer interoperability by design through industry standards and web protocols such as REST, SOAP, WS-*, as well as through community based libraries that make it easier to use the services. The Java SDK for .NET Services, developed by Schakra Inc, includes a set of libraries, tools, prescriptive guidance & sample applications that will enhance productivity for Java developers willing to use the .NET Services to extend their Java applications by using the Microsoft cloud services platform.
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The Ruby SDK for .NET Services, developed by ThoughtWorks, includes a set of libraries, tools, prescriptive guidance & sample applications that will enhance productivity for Ruby developers willing to use the .NET Services to extend their Ruby applications by using the Microsoft cloud services platform to build, deploy and manage reliable, Internet-scale applications.
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The SQL Data Services SDK provides APIs, tools, documentation, and code samples to quickly get you started with SQL Data Services.
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Connect with other users and developers through MSDN community resources. There's a growing archive of technical questions and answers in the forum.
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Discuss the Windows Azure operating system with other users and developers. Find answers to your questions and help others by sharing your knowledge.
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Interested in .NET Services? This is the place for questions, suggestions and discussions with regard to using the services.
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New to SQL Data Services? This is the place for questions and discussion with regard to getting started with the service, signing up, any other service related questions.
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How Do I: Multicast with the .NET Service Bus? 
Security Features in Microsoft Online Services