CodeMash 2011 Cloud Workshop
For those of you who joined Rob Gillen, Mike Collier, Brian Prince and I today for the Azure and Amazon Cloud Workshop, thanks for coming! For those of you who couldn’t make it I’ve posted our presentations and resources on my SkyDrive.
The download contains the slide decks and resource materials from the Cloud Workshop given at CodeMash 2011. The workshop was divided into a morning session on Windows Azure Platform and an afternoon session on Amazon Web Services. Each platform was given two presentations and some hands on time with the code.
Hands On Labs
The lab we used for the Azure session was directly from the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit. We only got through a portion of the IntroductionToWindowsAzureVS2010 lab. What follows is a list of labs that I would suggest from the Platform Training kit that will give you a good exposure to the Platform. All the labs included in the training kit are really good, but if you have to do only a handful, here is what I would suggest:
- WindowsAzureDeploymentVS2010
- IntroductionToWindowsAzureVS2010
- WindowsAzureDebugging
- AdvancedWebAndWorkerRoles
- WindowsAzureRoleCommunicationVS2010
- IntroToSQLAzureVS2010
- SqlAzureTipsAndTricksVS2010
- VirtualMachineRole
For Amazon, we had two custom labs: one that is all about getting set up and spinning up an instance of WordPress in the Amazon cloud services, and another lab that is a direct port of the IntroductionToWindowsAzureVS2010 (“Guestbook”) lab from the Azure training kit. This will give a good apples to apples comparison of how the services compare to produce the same result. Kudos have to go to the original author of the Azure Lab and Rob Gillen for creating the port for Amazon.