elasticity

Windows Azure and dynamic elasticity

Is there a way do do dynamic elasticity in Windows Azure? If my workers begin to get overloaded, or queues start to get too full, or too many workers have no work to do, is there a way to dynamically add or remove workers through code or is that just done manually (requires human intervention) right now? Does anyone know of any plans to ...

Elastic Load Balancing

Hi, I am wondering if there is a way to do elastic load balancing. I have read about HAProxy but it seems I need to bring down HAProxy to reconfigure it to work with more or less machines. To make the picture more clear: I have a cluster of web backends (lets say apache + mod_rails). I can monitor the usage of the backends and bring up...