Introduction to Windows Azure AppFabric

Alexander Koval Codemasters InternationalSoftware Architect, MCPD

Presentation Summary

1. Problems of Enterprise companies2. Overview of Azure AppFabric3. Azure AppFabric: Access Control4. Demo5. Azure AppFabric: Service Bus6. Demo7. Billing and Pricing8. Questions & Answers

Problem Areas• Interoperation between existing modules

• Abundance of existing Identity providers

• How do you control access to resources that are exposed?

• <the list goes on…>

What is in the AppFabric?

• Middleware Services• Composite App• AppFabric scale-out Infrastructure

Multi-tenant host

Composition Runtime

Service Bus

AccessControl

Caching

Integration

Security Concepts: Access Control

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4

TRUST

Access Control Service

Security Token Service

Identity Store

ApplicationIdentity Layer

Client

Relying Party

Identity Provider

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3

4

Cross-Domain Access Control

Service

Access Control Service

Client

ADFS v2

1

2

3

DEMO

Service Bus

Relay ServiceRendezvous Address

Client Service

MSG MSG

Windows Azure AppFabric

Service Remoting

Eventing

Protocol Tunneling

ACS

SB

ACS

SB

ACS

SB

DEMO

Price and Billing• Access Control

Access Control transactions = $1.99/100K

• Service Bus connections$3.99 per connection on a “pay-as-you-go” basis $9.95 for a pack of 5 connections $49.75 for a pack of 25 connections $199 for a pack of 100 connections $995 for a pack of 500 connections

• Data transfersData transfers = $0.10 in / $0.15 out / GB - ($0.10 in / $0.20 out / GB in Asia)

Questions?

Resources• Windows Azure platform AppFabric Documentation

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee173584.aspx

• Azure AppFabric SDK & Training Kit

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=39856a03-1490-4283-908f-c8bf0bfad8a5&displaylang=en

• Windows Azure AppFabric sitehttp://www.microsoft.com/en-us/appfabric/azure/default.aspx

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