What actually happens when a site reaches its capacity in terms of being able to service requests well under unexpected load? Does the service "spin up" additional virtual machine …

I keep hearing how Windows Azure has "Web roles" and "Worker Roles", what is the reason for this? Am I meant to structure my code differently for these things?

What do the cloud computing data centers look like. Are they banks of server racks?

I installed Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio (November 2009). While playing around with the labs, they reference Microsoft.ServiceHosting.ServiceRuntime, which is su …

What is the pricing of Windows Azure? is it based on CPU time?

Other cloud providers let me choose the configuration of my Virtual Machines. Am I able to choose how much CPU power or Memory my instances have?

Can you only use .Net code inside Windows Azure, or is it possible to use other development platforms to create your applications? Can I use Java or PHP? How about native C++ code? …

Having experimented with Amazon and runnning some websites there we still had some issues with the latency created by the distance to the data centers. Do Azure feature data cente …

I am looking to try out the Nov CTP of Azure and realise I don't have a token (I thought I did but can't find it). Where can I get a token to register and create a project?