Windows Services inside Windows Azure Platform

After running the following command line in Windows Azure,

net start

Following running services are returned.

These Windows services are started:

   Base Filtering Engine
   Certificate Propagation
   Cloud Drive
   CNG Key Isolation
   COM+ Event System
   Cryptographic Services
   DCOM Server Process Launcher
   DHCP Client
   Diagnostic Policy Service
   Distributed Link Tracking Client
   Distributed Transaction Coordinator
   DNS Client
   File Server Resource Manager
   Group Policy Client
   Hyper-V Guest Shutdown Service
   Hyper-V Time Synchronization Service
   IKE and AuthIP IPsec Keying Modules
   IP Helper
   IPsec Policy Agent
   KtmRm for Distributed Transaction Coordinator
   Network List Service
   Network Location Awareness
   Network Store Interface Service
   OS Diagnostic Service
   Plug and Play
   RdAgent
   Remote Access Connection Manager
   Remote Procedure Call (RPC)
   Remote Registry
   Secondary Logon
   Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol Service
   Security Accounts Manager
   Server
   Software Licensing
   System Event Notification Service
   TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper
   Telephony
   Terminal Services
   Terminal Services Configuration
   Terminal Services UserMode Port Redirector
   User Profile Service
   Virtual Disk
   Windows Error Reporting Service
   Windows Event Log
   Windows Firewall
   Windows Management Instrumentation
   Windows Remote Management (WS-Management)
   Windows Time
   Workstation

The command completed successfully.

Looks familiar? Sure, because the operating system currently running in an Azure Instance is Windows Server 2008. It is not strange to see so many old faces here. Nevertheless, there are some new services, such as "Cloud Drive", "OS Diagnostic Service" and "RdAgent", with corresponding processes namely clouddrivesvc.exe, osdiag.exe and rdagent.exe.

The functionality of "OS Diagnostic Service" is quite straight forward according to its name. But for other two services? Who knows?