FREE | Microsoft Azure for DreamSpark

[EduTech]

Hi All,

 

I just wanted to let you know of a new program

 

Microsoft Azure for DreamSpark gets you started with the services you need to develop in the cloud at no cost, using Visual Studio Community 2015:

 

This allows your students to get access to the following services:

 

• Azure App Service Web Apps is a part of a fully managed cloud offering that enables you to build and deploy web apps in seconds. Use ASP.NET, Java, PHP, Node.js or Python. Run popular web apps and CMS solutions. Set up continuous integration and deployment workflows with VSO, GitHub, TeamCity, Hudson or BitBucket – enabling you to automatically build, test and deploy your web app on each successful code check-in or integration tests.
  
• MySQL Database from ClearDB adds the power of MySQL to your Web Apps. With clearDB MySQL you can deploy more kinds of web apps and CMS solutions such as Wordpress, Joomla, Acquia Drupal, phpBB, and more.
  
• Application Insights provides a 360° view across availability, performance and usage of your ASP.NET services and mobile applications for Windows Phone, iOS and Android platforms. Search and analyze your data to continuously improve your application, prioritize future investments and improve overall customer experience.
  
• Visual Studio Online is the fastest and easiest way yet to plan, build, and ship software across a variety of platforms. Get up and running in minutes on our cloud infrastructure without having to install or configure a single server
  

 

You can find out more information here: https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=99

 

If you have any questions let me know,

 

James.

[MrKJLS]

Hi All,

 

I just wanted to let you know of a new program

 

Microsoft Azure for DreamSpark gets you started with the services you need to develop in the cloud at no cost, using Visual Studio Community 2015:

 

This allows your students to get access to the following services:

 

• Azure App Service Web Apps is a part of a fully managed cloud offering that enables you to build and deploy web apps in seconds. Use ASP.NET, Java, PHP, Node.js or Python. Run popular web apps and CMS solutions. Set up continuous integration and deployment workflows with VSO, GitHub, TeamCity, Hudson or BitBucket – enabling you to automatically build, test and deploy your web app on each successful code check-in or integration tests.
  
• MySQL Database from ClearDB adds the power of MySQL to your Web Apps. With clearDB MySQL you can deploy more kinds of web apps and CMS solutions such as Wordpress, Joomla, Acquia Drupal, phpBB, and more.
  
• Application Insights provides a 360° view across availability, performance and usage of your ASP.NET services and mobile applications for Windows Phone, iOS and Android platforms. Search and analyze your data to continuously improve your application, prioritize future investments and improve overall customer experience.
  
• Visual Studio Online is the fastest and easiest way yet to plan, build, and ship software across a variety of platforms. Get up and running in minutes on our cloud infrastructure without having to install or configure a single server
  

 

You can find out more information here: https://www.dreamspark.com/Product/Product.aspx?productid=99

 

If you have any questions let me know,

 

James.

 

As user of Azure Dreamspark for students (studying a BTEC Level 3 in Computing) i would like to put some ideas forward for the Azure offer

- Be able to use custom DNS instead of the .azurewebsites.net one

- Give access to some of the other features of the Web Apps on Azure (Can be part of assigned Credits?)

- Be able to have a bigger MySQL database as the current one is 25MB which can be a bit small depending on the application.

- Be given some Azure Credit to spin up some VM's to try different things. (Linux and Windows)

 

and that's all i can think of so far! Hope this gets somewhere in Microsoft!

 

Kieran