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...]
Simple Calculator for Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3 Pricing
September 3, 2012 by 17 Comments
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...]
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...]
Comparing Windows Azure Blob Storage and Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)–Summary
May 13, 2012 by 6 Comments
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)–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...]