Riviera is a sample application for Windows Azure available on MSDN Code Gallery for download. Riviera has been developed by Platform Evangelism group in collaboration with Cumulx who are a Cloud ISV partner. Key features of Riviera are:

Multi-tenant data store based on Azure Table Storage as well as SQL Azure.
Per tenant customization of data model
Per [...]

Microsoft PDC 2009 site is now accepting registrations. PDC 2009 will run from 17th November to 19th November 2009 at Los Angeles Convention Center Los Angeles. Here is pricing information from PDC website.

I think in or around PDC 2009 we should see commercial launch of Azure, Visual Studio 2010, .NET Framework 4.0 and maybe [...]

Jim Nakashima has announced the availability of Windows Azure Tools and SDK July 2009 CTP. Here are the download links:

Windows Azure Tools For Visual Studio 2008 And Visual Studio 2010 (also includes the SDK).
Windows Azure SDK only.

 
Here is a list of new goodies in July 2009 CTP re-posted from this link. 
New for the July [...]

This video is by far the best explanation I have seen. It cannot get any simpler and smarter. Original source of the video is Channel 9.

CCC stands for Cloud Computing Consultant. There, I have said it. This is my contribution to acronyms-land. I have also cleverly designed it to minimize RSI which I am sure will be appreciated. You only have to use one key to type the acronym. If you ever come across the term Cloud Computing Consultant [...]