If you’re uploading blobs by splitting blobs into blocks and you get the error - The specified blob or block content is invalid, then this post is for you. Short Version If you’re uploading blobs by splitting blobs into blocks and you get the above mentioned error, ensure that your block … [Read more...]
Windows Azure Blob Storage – Dealing With “The specified blob or block content is invalid” Error
May 18, 2013 by 11 Comments
Uploading Large Files in Windows Azure Blob Storage Using Shared Access Signature, HTML, and JavaScript
February 16, 2013 by 59 Comments
In my last post I talked about Shared Access Signature feature of Windows Azure Storage. You can read that post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2013/02/13/revisiting-windows-azure-shared-access-signature/. In this post we’ll put that to some practical use :). One thing I wanted to accomplish … [Read more...]
Revisiting Windows Azure Shared Access Signature
February 13, 2013 by 21 Comments
In this blog post, we’ll talk about Shared Access Signature (SAS) functionality in Windows Azure. Steve Marx (@smarx) wrote excellent blog posts on the same subject a few years ago which you can read here: http://blog.smarx.com/posts/shared-access-signatures-are-easy-these-days, … [Read more...]
Storage Client Library 2.0 – Migrating Blob Storage Code
November 28, 2012 by 12 Comments
A few days ago I wrote blog posts about migrating code from storage client library 1.7 to 2.0 to manage Windows Azure Table and Queue Storage. You can read those posts here: https://gauravmantri.com/2012/11/17/storage-client-library-2-0-migrating-table-storage-code/ and … [Read more...]
Simple Calculator for Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 Pricing
September 3, 2012 by 17 Comments
UPDATE - 06-DECEMBER-2012 I originally wrote this post in September 2012. Recently at their re:Invent event, Amazon announced reduction in their storage prices by 24-28% (http://aws.typepad.com/aws/2012/11/amazon-s3-price-reduction-december-1-2012.html). Yesterday Microsoft announced similar price … [Read more...]
How to move Windows Azure Virtual Machines from one Subscription to another
July 4, 2012 by 21 Comments
Quite recently I was helping somebody out on MSDN forums with a question about Windows Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS). One thing that came up on that thread is how would one move their VMs from one subscription to another. There could be many reasons as to why one would want to do this. One possible … [Read more...]
How to Copy a Bucket from Amazon S3 to Windows Azure Blob Storage using “Copy Blob”
June 15, 2012 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday, I wrote a blog post about how you can copy an object (file) from Amazon S3 to Windows Azure Blob Storage using improved “Copy Blob” functionality. You can read that post here: … [Read more...]
How To Copy an Object from Amazon S3 to Windows Azure Blob Storage using “Copy Blob”
June 14, 2012 by 13 Comments
Yesterday I wrote a blog post summarizing updates done to Windows Azure Storage. You can read that blog post here: https://gauravmantri.com/2012/06/13/updates-to-windows-azure-storagesummary-of-new-features/. One of the significant improvement done is with “Copy Blob” function. While preparing … [Read more...]
Updates To Windows Azure Storage–Summary Of New Features
June 13, 2012 by 4 Comments
Last week we saw a lot of new features introduced in Windows Azure Platform. We also saw that all of these new features can be accessed either via new and improved Windows Azure Portal or using Service Management REST API (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ee460799). In fact, … [Read more...]
Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Google Cloud Storage
June 1, 2012 by 6 Comments
Taking a break from my personal and emotionally charged Cerebrata Story (https://gauravmantri.com/tag/cerebrata/) , I thought it would be nice to write a comparison between Google App Engine storage offerings and Windows Azure Storage offerings as some of the readers asked for it. So here I’m, … [Read more...]