Windows Azure: Import/Export Hard Drives, VM ACLs, Web Sockets, Remote Debugging, Continuous Delivery, New Relic, Billing Alerts and More

Two weeks ago we released a giant set of improvements to Windows Azure, as well as a significant update of the Windows Azure SDK. This morning we released another massive set of enhancements to Windows Azure.  Today’s new capabilities include:

• Storage: Import/Export Hard Disk Drives to your Storage Accounts
• HDInsight: General Availability of our Hadoop Service in the cloud
• Virtual Machines: New VM Gallery, ACL support for VIPs
• Web Sites: WebSocket and Remote Debugging Support
• Notification Hubs: Segmented customer push notification support with tag expressions
• TFS & GIT: Continuous Delivery Support for Web Sites + Cloud Services
• Developer Analytics: New Relic support for Web Sites + Mobile Services
• Service Bus: Support for partitioned queues and topics
• Billing: New Billing Alert Service that sends emails notifications when your bill hits a threshold you define