Compute

What is Custom Data? Customers often ask how they can inject a script or other metadata into a Microsoft Azure virtual machine at provision time.

Drum roll, please.  With our most recent Microsoft Azure Runtime release, we are happy to announce the successor to OS Images, the new VM Image entity.

With the latest release of Azure Web Sites and the new Azure Portal Preview we are introducing a new concept: Web Hosting Plans. A Web Hosting Plan (WHP) allows you to group and scale sites independently within a subscription.

If you like getting up-close and personal with managing your computing resources, you’ll be happy to know that your Windows Azure Website comes with some useful online tools that let you do some…

How many times have you been woken up in the middle of a night for an issue that was simply resolved by restarting your web site?

With the rapid increase in identity theft and various forms of cybercrime, security your website with Secure Socket Layer, or SSL for short has become more important and more common.

Configuring an Azure Web Sites (WAWS) for IP and Domain Restrictions has been one of our most requested asks, and it is now finally available.

With the increase in cybercrime in recent years, securing your website with SSL is becoming a highly sought-after feature, and Windows Azure Web Sites provides support for it.

Part of the HTTP communication process that occurs between web servers and browsers are the HTTP headers that are included in the request and response.

When setting up a website, an important part of the game is having the site run on your own domain name.

Setting up multiple instances of a website in Windows Azure Websites is a terrific way to scale out your website, and Azure makes great use of the Application Request Routing IIS Extension to…

Windows Azure Web Sites has a handy capability whereby developers can store key-value string pairs in Azure as part of the configuration information associated with a website.