dmeister :
1) Azure is a classical \"Platform as a Service\". I agree\n\n2) 99% is not a very high availability. It means that Azure is allowed to be 3 full days down per year. The blog article you referenced is IMHO quite suboptimal. There is another one that explains the CAP theorem in more detail. ",
2010-03-23T17:22:25
jball :
In answer to your first point, MS itself calls Azure the \"Windows Azure Platform\", so its status as PaaS seems self-evident.\n\nIn response to your question about backups in the second point, one of the main promises of cloud computing is to allow you to ignore the administration of the resources. They promise safe data, it's up to you as to whether you trust them, but if you want to know exactly how they implement it, you're missing the point of the cloud abstraction.\n\nThe third point is more interesting, but I would assume it's up to you to pay attention (write monitoring software?) to whether they live up to their SLAs.",
2010-03-23T17:18:05