http://blogs.msdn.com/b/arunrakwal/archive/2012/05/10/azure-scale-application-increase-or-decrease-the-number-of-role-instance.aspxUndoubtedly one of the best feature of Windows Azure is to allow you scale your hosted service based on demand by increasing and decreasing number of role instances part of your hosted service. This not only helps business with increases customer satisfactionen-USTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)http://blogs.msdn.com/b/arunrakwal/archive/2012/05/10/azure-scale-application-increase-or-decrease-the-number-of-role-instance.aspx#10304009Thu, 10 May 2012 22:03:21 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:10304009Igor Papirov<p>Arun,</p> <p>There are also 3rd party solutions like AzureWatch from <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.paraleap.com">http://www.paraleap.com</a> that will monitor &amp; auto-scale Azure applications with all sorts of bells and whistles, and Microsoft&#39;s own WASABi application block @ <a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/avkashchauhan/archive/2011/10/14/windows-azure-autoscaling-application-block-wasabi-beta-is-ready-for-you-to-try.aspx">blogs.msdn.com/.../windows-azure-autoscaling-application-block-wasabi-beta-is-ready-for-you-to-try.aspx</a></p> <div style="clear:both;"></div><img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=10304009" width="1" height="1">