How good is Windows Azure for Python/ Django?

Microsoft Azure Application Development Services

Many developers can easily deploy a Django application on Azure Websites and they have a good experience on Azure Website scope as well. Stable Django projects do not need to make any change in their structure to work on the platform. It doesn’t give a root access as many custom software are required at the same time. Microsoft Azure Application Development Services is the care taker of all associated assistance required for Azure security and development.

Window Azure for Python / Django

1.    Azure website uses IIS/Windows, so there are no roots. If you need to run custom software, you can put them in a Linux VM and access them as a service or you can only use a Linux VM for everything.

2.    Lack of resources and documentation as well as unconventional deploy method for Python is against using Window Azure for anything other than .Net. You can also try Python tools for Visual Studio.

3.    Azure can assist running of Django, but all development platforms are second class citizens when compared to .Net support on Azure.

4.    It is not so good as a cloud service on Azure, but VM on Azure is not bad.

5.    Python is a general purpose language that is widely used in scientific applications and web development. While, Django is a general purpose web development framework.

6.  If you build on .Net- Azure is best suited for .Net developers of websites and applications. You can also go with Microsoft’s BizSpark or WebsiteSpark programs to get Azure for free, as well.
The major benefit about keeping Azure pricing down is that you don’t actually have to use separate worker roles to handle your worker tasks. It depends on how people are ready to work on Python or
Django for Window platform.

7.     Depending on applications and the mode you will run them, let’ say SQL on IaaS, you should also think about the vendor support, AWS is not the vendor for any of the products it has on AWS, whereas Microsoft, develops, sells and supports many of the products it has on Azure. This allows them to test the product on their cloud first.

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