How many worker roles and web roles can you have per Azure subscription?
a. 1 worker role and 1 web role
b. 10 in total
c. 11 in total
d. Unlimited
Is Windows Azure only work for .NET?
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How many worker roles and web roles can you have per Azure subscription?
a. 1 worker role and 1 web role
b. 10 in total
c. 11 in total
d. Unlimited
Is Windows Azure only work for .NET?
EDIT: I updated this to reflect the changes from September, 2011, increasing role count from 5 to 25.
A subscription is not capped by role-count. Each hosted service may have up to 25 roles (see this MSDN article for clarification), with a mix of Web, Worker, and VM Roles. By default, a subscription is limited to six hosted services, and a total of 20 Small instances (e.g. 20 cores) across the entire subscription. You can mix and match VM sizes but you’ll initially be capped at 20 cores. You can contact customer support to get both the hosted service count and the instance count lifted (I work with ISVs who go well beyond 20 instances).
Windows Azure is not limited to .net apps. The VMs themselves are based on Windows Server 2008 SP2 and 2008 R2. You can easily run Java, PHP, and python apps, for example. Launch Jetty or Tomcat, run servers such as MongoDB, etc. Take a look at the Windows Azure Interop page for more info.