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Develop, package, and deploy powerful applications and services to the cloud with Azure Cloud Services, and the click of a button. Scale from 1 to 1000 in minutes. Once your application is deployed, thats itfrom provisioning and load balancing, to health monitoring, Azure handles the rest. Your application is backed by an industry-leading 99.95% monthly SLA.

Get your hands on an excellent development experience using the Azure SDK, which integrates seamlessly with Visual Studio. Deploy applications using any language you like, including .NET, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, or Ruby. Test your application before deploying it to the cloud by using Azure Emulator, which brings the platforms key functionality right to your development computer.

You dont have to worry about patching, faulty hardware, or network issues. Use Azure Cloud Services to deploy your application, keep it continuously available during crashes and failures, and redirecting traffic from troubled instances to ones that are running smoothly. Automatic operating system updates mean that your application is always highly secure, without maintenance windows or downtime.

Azure Cloud Services gives you a staging environment for testing a new release, without affecting the existing release, which reduces the chances of customer downtime. When youre ready to deploy the new release to production, just swap the staging environment into production.

Azure helps you monitor the health and availability of your applications. The health metrics dashboard shows you key statistics at a glance. Set up real-time alerts to warn you when service availability or other metrics degrade.

Is your application suddenly trending on Twitter? Azure and its free Autoscale feature can help you during unexpected traffic spikes, by automatically scaling up or down to meet demand, while simultaneously minimizing costs. Use Autoscale to set scaling limits, schedule goals, and ensure that your customers get optimal performance.

Dv2-series, that follows the original D-series, features a more powerful CPU, which is on average about 35% faster than the D-series CPU, and carries the same memory and disk configurations as the D-series. The Dv2-series is based on the latest generation 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) Intel Xeon E5-2673 v3 (Haswell) processor, and with the Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0, can go up to 3.2 GHz. The Dv2-series and D-series are ideal for applications that demand faster CPUs, better local disk performance, or higher memories. They give you a powerful combination for many enterprise-grade applications.

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