Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Migrate existing applications and databases to Azure (step-by-step)

Here is a quick/simple 5-step migration of an existing ASP.NET web application and SQL Server database to Windows Azure “Web Roles” and SQL Azure.

It’s intended to be a very simple demonstration to convey the concept and tools used.  It does NOT include all features of Azure or various enterprise scenarios such as large database partitioning/scaling, service bus integration, authentication, Worker Roles for background processing, or the multiple storage options available in Azure.

Step 1.  Setup your environment, download/install the required tools, and create your Azure Subscriptions.

Read more: Jeff Nuckolls {Application Platform and Development