How to migrate your ASP.NET app to the Azure cloud

Cloud computing is one of the hot topics of 2011 with those willing to make the jump to a cloud-based solution finding financial savings in this new approach as well as, in many cases, better fault tolerance and a more responsive service turnaround in many cases. However, what many developers may not realise is just how straightforward it can be to migrate a web site from a local or hosted server into the cloud.