Practical Azure #10: Web Roles

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You’ve got some awesome ASP.NET web sites (or even PHP or node.js), but they’re running in your data center, and you’re not getting the economies of scale or the failover and high availability that Windows Azure offers.

Fear not! With Windows Azure Web Roles, you can bring your web applications and services to the cloud – in some cases without any modifications – right from Visual Studio. Find out how in my latest segment of Practical Azure on MSDN DevRadio.

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