Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. You can build applications using any language, tool or framework. And you can integrate your public cloud applications with your existing IT environment.

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Creating a Virtul Server in azure is very simple.

Log in to https://manage.windowsazure.com/ with you credentials, Now your in admin panel.



Select Virtual Machines from left panel.



Select New or CREATE A VIRTUAL MACHINE.


From the pop up window select VIRTUAL MACHINE and FROM GALLERY.


Select your OS from platform from the list and go to next step. i'll go with Ubantu.


Give name for the server select size from the drop down list where you can select no or cores for processor and amount of RAM. Cost also varies depending on this. Give user name . Uncheck Upload compatible SSH key for authentication. Check Provide password and give password for the user.

Now give your dns name for the server. It will be automaically resolved from internet. No need to maintain dns server. Select Region / Affinity group from the drop down list. If you have specific storage group then only select or else leave as it is and hit next.

By default all your virtual machines in Azure are behind Azure load balancer. So every VM will have one local IP  and a Public IP. If you want to access your server from out side via public then you have to open port for specific port in this page. For example if it is a windows machine, you have to enable 3389 port here. Either you can use as NAT assigning different port numbers for public port and private port or else give same as 3389 and 3389 to make it default.


For few minutes status will be shown as Starting. Once done it shows running.  To see the server details, monitor server resources , simple click on the machine.


That's it.

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