Scott Guthrie's blog yesterday
announced the latest cloud service in the Windows Azure family of services.
Windows Azure Mobile Services is a set of services that are designed to make it easier for mobile application developers to create and use a server backend. Using the Windows Azure cloud as such a backend will allow you to get ready-to-use push notification functionality, save data to the cloud storage, authenticate and authorize users without having to deploy your own infrastructure.
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Today, Windows Azure Mobile Services are available as a
preview version that allows you to develop mobile applications for Windows 8. Access to services is still available from C # and JavaScript. The development team is working on a public REST API that will allow receiving data and working with services from any language. In addition, with the development of the service, the official instrumental support for Windows Phone, iOS and Android will be added to the release of the final version.
In order to start using the new Mobile Services, you need to subscribe to their preview version at
https://account.windowsazure.com/PreviewFeatures .

Access to the service is issued based on the request queue and therefore it may take some time until your application is processed.
It is very nice that at the time of the preview for 10 copies of mobile services, the price for a shared mode of Mobile Services is zero! But, as for Web Sites, when switching to the reserved mode, money begins to be charged. Prices and payment details for resource consumption can be found on the special
Pricing Details page.
Today,
Windows Azure Mobile Services offers the following functionality:
Along with the launch of the service, application development tools for the Windows 8
Mobile Services SDK were released , which makes it easy to integrate cloud services into Windows 8 applications.
Meet the innovations in Windows Azure Mobile Services in the
announcement from Scott Guthrie . You can also
watch the video on Channel9 site dedicated to new cloud services.
Habr's users can already evaluate the first article-translation of the description of working with new services from Habrayuzer
glamcoder -
Getting Started with Windows Azure Mobile Services .
Developers can familiarize themselves with the guidelines for using the new cloud service on the official website at the following link
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/resources/ .
Also, visit the new official mobile development section using Windows Azure
https://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/ .
And another great resource: a set of ready-made JavaScript scripts for communicating with services and answers to popular questions
msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj591477