Met Office ditches Google App Engine for Microsoft Azure to 'future proof' Weather Observations Website

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Met Office ditches Google App Engine for Microsoft Azure to 'future proof' Weather Observations Website

Azure's PaaS model a ray of sunshine for crowdsourced weather database

The Met Office has decided to move from Google's PaaS (platform as a service) cloud hosting and development service Google App Engine to Microsoft's Azure platform, in order to "future proof" its Weather...

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