A cloud computing platform enables applications to be hosted in an Internet-accessible virtual environment that supplies the necessary hardware, software, network, and storage capacities and provides for security and reliability, removing much of the burden of purchasing and maintaining hardware and software in-house. In the cloud, you can develop, deploy, and manage applications as you have in the past and integrate these services to your on-premise applications. You pay only for the time, resources, and capacity you use while scaling up to accommodate the changing business needs.
In this article, I will examine the typical cloud platform architecture and some common architectural patterns, along with their implementation on the Windows Azure offering from Microsoft.
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