After 6 months of intense learning and development, I’m pleased to announce the availability of our 1st service Cloud FileXchange (CFX) in public beta today. In this post we’ll talk about what this service is, what it does today and where we’re going with this. I would appreciate if you could try … [Read more...]
Announcing The Launch Of Cynapta Cloud FileXchange In Public Beta
January 20, 2014 by Leave a Comment
Create Pre Signed URL Using C# for Uploading Large Files In Amazon S3
January 6, 2014 by 6 Comments
For a change, this would be a technical post which will not be about Windows Azure :). For the service we are building at Cynapta, we had a requirement where we needed to upload large files using a pure browser based interface. For that we used Query String authentication mechanism available in … [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 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...]