Some noticeable advantages to run applications in Windows Azure are high availability and fault tolerance achieved by the so-called fault domain and upgrade domain. These two terms represent important strategies adopted by Windows Azure for deploying and upgrading applications. With in this post and in all my articles, It should be noted that when discussing Windows Azure applications, Windows Azure and Fabric Controller (FC) are used interchangeably to represent the cloud OS in Windows Azure, unless otherwise stated. And in the context of cloud computing, an application and a service are very much the same from a user's point of view. Also free trainings of Microsoft technologies including Windows Azure are available at http://aka.ms/va.
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