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by unsigner 4777 days ago
Translation: "game developers are now strongly encouraged to use Azure for backend".
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Clepsydra 4777 days ago
From Mary Jo Foley's blog: Xbox Live does not run on Windows Azure; it runs on its own servers in Microsoft's datacenters.
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johnbellone 4777 days ago
This may be Azure as a service vs. Azure as a platform.

I'd be very surprised if there were 300,000 physical servers.

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threeseed 4777 days ago
Sure. But if XBox Live machines are in the same datacentre as the Azure ones then you would be crazy not to use Azure as the platform for your apps.
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