Windows Azure: New Scheduler Service, Read-Access Geo Redundant Storage, and Monitoring Updates

This morning we released another nice set of enhancements to Windows Azure.  Today’s new capabilities include:
Scheduler: New Windows Azure Scheduler Service Storage: New Read-Access Geo Redundant Storage Option Monitoring: Enhancements to Monitoring and Diagnostics for Azure services All of these improvements are now available to use immediately (note that some features are still in preview).  Below are more details about them:
Scheduler: New Windows Azure Scheduler Service I’m excited to announce the preview of our new Windows Azure Scheduler service.  The Windows Azure Scheduler service allows you to schedule jobs that invoke HTTP/S endpoints or post messages to a storage queue on any schedule you define.  Using the Scheduler, you can create jobs that reliably call serv ...