Windows Azure Success Indicators

Here are some key ones as of 6/14/13 (https://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/06/14/50-percent-of-fortune-500s-using-windows-azure.aspx):

 50% of the Fortune 500 using Windows Azure

250K customers

Average of 1000 new customers per day

Average of 270,000 requests per second

Peak demand up to 880,000 requests per second

Four trillion(!!) objects in blob storage