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Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Summary

I wrote two detailed blog posts comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3). You can read those blog posts here: … [Continue reading]

Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part II

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: … [Continue reading]

Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Part I

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 … [Continue reading]

Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon DynamoDB–Summary

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 … [Continue reading]

Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon DynamoDB

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 … [Continue reading]

Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon SimpleDB–Summary

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/. … [Continue reading]

Comparing Windows Azure Table Storage and Amazon SimpleDB

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 … [Continue reading]

Comparing Windows Azure Queue Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service–Summary

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: … [Continue reading]

Comparing Windows Azure Queue Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service

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 … [Continue reading]

Programmatically finding Deployment Slot from code running in Windows Azure

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 … [Continue reading]