Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server
Updated: October 19, 2016
Applies To: Windows Azure Pack
Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server is a hybrid cloud solution that brings Windows Azure technologies to your datacenter. It lets Microsoft customers offer a rich, self-service, multi-tenant cloud on your datacenter’s hardware at no additional cost.
You can learn more about the benefits of Windows Azure Pack by reading the datasheet PDF.
To install Windows Azure Pack, check out the deployment pages.
Windows Azure Pack integrates with Windows Server, System Center, and SQL Server to offer a cost-effective, self-service portal and cloud services:
| Windows Azure Pack Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Tenant portal | A customizable self-service portal that tenants can use to provision, monitor, and manage services such as web site and virtual machine clouds. |
| Admin portal | A portal for administrators to manage resource clouds, user accounts, tenant offers, quotas, and pricing. |
| Service management API | A REST API to develop a range of integration scenarios including custom portal and billing systems |
| Virtual Machine Clouds service | Supports infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) capabilities for Windows and Linux virtual machines. |
| Windows Azure Pack: Web Sites | Provides a high-density, scalable shared web hosting platform for ASP.NET, PHP, and Node.js web applications. |
| Service Bus Clouds service | Provides reliable messaging services between distributed applications. |
| SQL and MySQL services | Provide database instances that can be used in conjunction with the Web Sites service. |
| Automation | Automate and integrate additional custom services into the services framework, including a runbook editor and execution environment. |
| International language support | English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Russian. |