Ryan Barrett works for Google on their App Engine and he’s written his thoughts on Azure including a breakdown of the various components, how developers can use it and his opinions on the good, bad and the ugly.

“The technology itself is ambitious, comprehensive, and impressive - at least, on paper”

“Also, they've also committed to serious dogfooding, ie building and running their own hosted services on Azure, much more than other cloud providers”

More info: Overview |  Detailed appraisal

Source:→ James