I wrote two detailed blog posts comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). You can read those blog posts here: https://gauravmantri.com/2012/05/09/comparing-windows-azure-blob-storage-and-amazon-simple-storage-service-s3part-i/ and … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Summary
May 13, 2012 by 6 Comments
Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part II
May 11, 2012 by 3 Comments
In part I of this blog post, we started comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). We covered basic concepts and compared pricing and features of Blob Container and Buckets. You can read that blog post here: … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part I
May 9, 2012 by 20 Comments
In this blog post, we’re going to compare Windows Azure Blob Storage Service and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) from core functionality point of view. In this blog post we’re going to focus on core concepts, pricing and feature comparison between blob containers and buckets (defined below). In … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon DynamoDB–Summary
May 1, 2012 by Leave a Comment
I wrote a detailed blog post comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon DynamoDB. You can read that post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2012/04/30/comparing-windows-azure-table-storage-and-amazon-dynamodb/. This blog post summarizes that comparison. Like the other post, for the sake of … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon DynamoDB
April 30, 2012 by 7 Comments
In this blog post, we are going to compare Windows Azure Table Storage Service and Amazon DynamoDB from core functionality point of view. For the sake of brevity, we’re going to refer Windows Azure Table Storage Service as WATS and Amazon DynamoDB as ADDB. From fundamental functionality point of … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon SimpleDB–Summary
April 26, 2012 by 4 Comments
Over the past few weeks, I have been writing a detailed blog post comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon SimpleDB. You can read that post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2012/04/21/comparing-windows-azure-table-storage-and-amazon-simpledb/. This blog post summarizes the comparison. Like … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon SimpleDB
April 21, 2012 by 6 Comments
In this blog post, we are going to compare Windows Azure Table Storage Service and Amazon SimpleDB from core functionality point of view. For the sake of brevity, we’re going to refer Windows Azure Table Storage Service as WATS and Amazon SimpleDB as ASDB. From fundamental functionality point of … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Queue Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service–Summary
April 15, 2012 by 2 Comments
Over the past few weeks, I have been writing a detailed blog post comparing Windows Azure Queue Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service. You can read that post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2012/03/27/comparing-windows-azure-queue-service-and-amazon-simple-queue-service/. This post turned out to be … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Queue Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service
March 27, 2012 by 17 Comments
In this blog post, we’re going to compare Windows Azure Queue Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service from core functionality point of view. For the sake of brevity, we’re going to refer Windows Azure Queue Service as WAQS and Amazon Simple Queue Service as ASQS in the rest of this blog post. From … [Read more...]
Programmatically finding Deployment Slot from code running in Windows Azure
March 16, 2012 by 7 Comments
I’ve seen a number of threads on MSDN forums for Windows Azure where folks want to know if their application is running in “Production” or “Staging” slot in a Windows Azure hosted service. There may be situations where you don’t want your code to execute certain functionality when it is running in … [Read more...]