The purpose of this paper is to present the deployment of Datacap Web Services (wTM) in the Azure Cloud in response to a customer requirement. The requirement was for Datacap Web Services to be implemented in Azure in a highly available manner, which was dynamically scalable in response to workload and system demand. This paper describes the implementation in a Proof-of-Concept environment in the Microsoft Azure Cloud, using cloud-native features including:

• Azure VM Scale Sets
  allowing horizontal scaling of the Web Servers on demand, depending on the system load
• Azure SQL
  for hosting the Datacap databases (Admin, Engine, Fingerprint)
• Azure Application Gateway
  for balancing traffic to Datacap Web Servers, (IIS Servers)