How to Create a Cloud Service With Windows Azure

Today I’m going to show you how I created a cloud service with Microsoft Windows Azure. It’s pretty easy, and the tools are great to work with. For this tutorial we’ll be building a web service that is an API that returns country codes for a given IP. It takes the IP in string format and returns a JSON object with country codes in it. This can also be run as a regular ASP.Net website as well.