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Computing, SOA and Windows Azure - Part 3  Windows Azure Roles
A cloud service in Windows Azure will typically have multiple
concurrent instances. Each instance may be running all or a part
of the service's codebase. As a developer, you control the
number and type of roles that you want running your service.
Web Roles and Worker Roles Windows Azure roles are comparable to
standard Visual Studio projects, where each instance represents
a separate project. These roles represent different types of
applications that are natively supported by Windows Azure. There
are two types of roles that you can use to host services with
Windows Azure:    • Web roles   • Worker roles  Web roles
provide support for HTTP and HTTPS through public endpoints and
are hosted in IIS. They are most comparable to regular ASP.NET
projects, except for d