In this blog post, I’m going to talk about how I built a Windows 8 application using Windows Azure Mobile Service. Windows Azure Mobile Service is the newest Windows Azure Services that you can use to provide backend services for your mobile applications (currently Windows 8, more coming soon). You … [Read more...]
How I Built an “Awesome Chat” application for Windows 8 with Windows Azure Mobile Service
August 30, 2012 by 25 Comments
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...]
Updates to Windows Azure Storage – Reduced Transaction Pricing and Geo Replication
June 8, 2012 by 1 Comment
[UPDATE] This is an updated post. When I initially published the post earlier today, I was under the impression that before yesterday’s announcement you paid lesser price for storage and with geo-replication feature (details below), you would pay a higher price. I WAS WRONG. I have since corrected … [Read more...]
Updates to Windows Azure Service Management REST API
June 7, 2012 by 4 Comments
Today, 7th of June 2012 is a big day for Windows Azure. A lot of new features are coming (IaaS, Support for Non-Windows Operating Systems, Windows Azure Websites etc. etc. [I could go on-and-on with the new features]). Check out Windows Azure website at https://www.windowsazure.com for more details. … [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...]