As usual, there's a good write up on these changes from Scott Gu as well.[1] As someone who has been using Azure for 3+ years now, I'm pretty excited about the direction Microsoft is going with Azure.

But for crying out loud can Microsoft please officially release Azure Websites? It's been in 'preview' for so long. I would really like to use it in production and have SSL support. :)

[1] http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2013/04/16/windows-az...