Recently Azure Storage team announced the availability of blob versions. A blob version essentially represents the state of a blob (in terms of content, properties and metadata etc.) at a particular point of time. Azure Storage automatically creates a new version of a blob whenever it is modified or … [Read more...]
Avoiding “AuthorizationFailed” error when hand-crafting Shared Access Signature for Azure Storage
February 21, 2020 by 1 Comment
I've been quite active on Stack Overflow answering a lot of Azure related questions (mostly around Azure Storage). One thing I noticed there is that there are a lot of folks running into issues when they're trying to write code themselves for creating Shared Access Signature. Most of the errors they … [Read more...]
Oops! I Deleted My Blobs! What Can I Do?
February 23, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Honestly, Nothing! But that’s before reading this post. After reading this post, you don’t have to worry about a thing. In this post we will talk about Soft Delete functionality recently announced by Azure Storage. This super cool functionality will protect your blobs against accidental (or … [Read more...]
Zone Redundant Storage (Preview v/s Classic)–Compared & Contrasted
January 31, 2018 by Leave a Comment
Recently I ran into this blog post by Azure Storage Team: Azure Zone Redundant Storage in public preview. When I saw this post, the first thought that came to my mind was “it must surely be a mistake” , after all Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS) has been available for quite some time now. Out of … [Read more...]
Understanding Azure Storage Blob Access Tiers
October 15, 2017 by
It has been really-really long time that I have written a blog post. Past year or so has been simply crazy. From acquiring Cerebrata back to building a brand new product (Cerulean) from scratch, things kept me quite busy. In this blog post we will talk about blob access tiers. We will talk about … [Read more...]
Azure Storage – Shared Access Signature Enhancements
October 12, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Over the past few months, Azure Storage Team released two major upgrades. Both of these upgrades involve some really interesting new features and improvements. Among these new features and improvements include changes to Shared Access Signature (SAS) functionality. In Cloud Portam SAS plays a really … [Read more...]
What’s New In Azure Storage
August 17, 2015 by 9 Comments
It’s been a while that I wrote a blog post about Azure Storage :). Earlier this month, Azure Storage Team released a new version of Storage Service and included a lot of awesome goodness! In this blog post, I will try to summarize those. So let’s start! New Storage Service REST API Version / … [Read more...]
Azure Service Bus – As I Understand It: Part I (Overview)
June 1, 2015 by Leave a Comment
Recently we started working on including support for Azure Service Bus in Cloud Portam. Prior to this, I had no experience with this service though it has been around for quite some time and I always wanted to try this out but one thing or another (oh, my stupid excuses :)!) prevented me from doing … [Read more...]
Understanding Azure Premium Storage – A Developer Perspective
May 22, 2015 by Leave a Comment
As you may already know Azure Premium Storage is the latest offering from Azure Storage which is designed specifically to handle Virtual Machine workloads. A few weeks back we included support for managing Premium Storage in Cloud Portam. There were a few things I learnt during that process and in … [Read more...]
Azure SDK 2.5 and Cloud Service Diagnostics
November 18, 2014 by 2 Comments
Recently Azure team announced the availability of SDK 2.5. You can read the release notes here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn873976.aspx. One of the major change that was done in this release is related to diagnostics. In this post we will talk about diagnostics changes in the … [Read more...]