This guide is designed for developers and architects who are starting their journey into Microsoft Azure. In this guide, you’ll learn how to get started and which services you can use for your scenarios.
From creating websites, databases, and desktop and mobile applications to integrating the latest technologies into your application, Azure does the heavy lifting for you. Azure services are designed to work together so you can build complete solutions
Its not a developers guide! its a book that has description of azure "services". It states its from developers for developers but its more like from marketing devision for any-one who would like to be motivated to buy azure :)
This is just a quick intro to Azure. It walks you through the list of available services, with very brief descriptions and web links for more info. Then it has a few walkthroughs for various Azure usage scenarios. (They weren't really applicable for me, so I only skimmed them.) It's a free ebook, so I wasn't expecting much. If you're just looking to get a quick Azure overview, this isn't a bad place to start.
A well written book that gives a good overview of Microsoft Azure services. I liked the organisation of the book and the links to more reading resources. The parctical buide your own apps at the end of the book was useful too fro some hands-on. Concise and useful book.