Auto-Scale your Windows Azure cloud services

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Auto-scaling just got easier... built-in support within the port for scaling your cloud services and VMs based upon CPU utilization or Azure queues (more perf options to come).  This is huge as the alternative required hosting other add-ons and instrumenting your services with things like Wasabi or 3rd party services such as Opstera (formerly Managed Axis). 

https://blogs.msdn.com/b/agile/archive/2013/07/02/windows-azure-autoscaling-now-built-in.aspx