Microsoft has released some great updates to Windows Azure that make it significantly easier to develop mobile applications that use the cloud. These new capabilities include:
Mobile Services: Custom API support
Mobile Services: Git Source Control support
Mobile Services: Node.js NPM Module support
Mobile Services: A .NET API via NuGet
Mobile Services and Web Sites: Free 20MB SQL Database Option for Mobile Services and Web Sites
Mobile Notification Hubs: Android Broadcast Push Notification Support
Most of these improvements are now available to use immediately but some are still in preview so stay tuned for some more updates to come.