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Dynamically adding Virtual Machines to a deployment at runtime is a useful feature of Azure enabling dynamic load matching, but it can take several minutes from the time of the request until the instance is integrated into the deployment. If fast scaling out is important, hot-standbys may be required (Note: “hot-standbys” will incur a financial cost. If this is prohibitive, plan ahead and start in

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Best Practices for Developing on Window Azure