Article: Tips for Migrating Your Applications to the Cloud
I had the great pleasure of co-authoring an article on application migration to Windows Azure for MSDN Magazine with my friend George Huey, creator of the SQL Azure Migration Wizard. This article stems from our work helping dozens of customers – both small and big – migrate their existing applications to run in the cloud.
(Ours is the second down on the left.)
While this article is by no means exhaustive, we did try to explain some of the common patterns and scenarios we faced when helping customers migrate their applications into Windows Azure. I hope you find it valuable.
I just read the article, great stuff. I have a question that has remained unanswered for me so far in all articles regarding Azure: What if you have a traditional Windows service written in unmanaged code that is typically used in AD and uses native methods for access control such as client impersonation and AccessCheck against traditional security descriptors. Is there any chance to move such a service into the cloud/Azure without throwing it away and rewriting it? This would require that Azure can run native apps/services on a computer in the cloud that is joined to your AD domain that runs on premises. I mean, lots of enterprises sit on tons of such architectures and I’ve never seen any article that deals with such a scenario in the cloud. Is this possible at all? Any pointers to documentation?