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Windows Azure Blobs: Improved HTTP Headers for Resume on Download and a...
In the new 2011-08-18 version of the Windows Azure Blob service, we have made some changes to improve browser download and streaming for some media players. We also provided an extension to Blob...
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Windows Azure Tables: Introducing Upsert and Query Projection
As part of the “2011-08-18” version, two Windows Azure Table features were introduced; Upsert, represented by the InsertOrReplace Entity and InserOrMerge Entity APIs, and Query Projection. In this...
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Windows Azure Queues: Improved Leases, Progress Tracking, and Scheduling of...
As part of the “2011-08-18” version, we have introduced several commonly requested features to the Windows Azure Queue service. The benefits of these new features are: Allow applications to store...
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Introducing Geo-replication for Windows Azure Storage
We are excited to announce that we are now geo-replicating customer’s Windows Azure Blob and Table data, at no additional cost, between two locations hundreds of miles apart within the same region...
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Windows Azure Storage at BUILD 2011: Geo-Replication and new Blob, Table and...
We are excited to release geo-replication and a new version of the REST API to enable functionality improvements for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables, and Queues. At this time we are now geo-replicating all...
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Blob Download Bug in Windows Azure SDK 1.5
Update: We have now released a fix for this issue. The download blob methods in this version throw an IOException if the connection is closed while downloading the blob, which is the same behavior...
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SOSP Paper - Windows Azure Storage: A Highly Available Cloud Storage Service...
We recently published a paper describing the internal details of Windows Azure Storage at the 23rd ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP). The paper can be found here. The conference also...
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Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Blob Features
We have released the Storage Client for Java with support for Windows Azure Blobs, Queues, and Tables. Our goal is to continue to improve the development experience when writing cloud applications...
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Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Tables Deep Dive
This blog post serves as an overview to the recently released Windows Azure Storage Client for Java which includes support for the Azure Table Service. Azure Tables is a NoSQL datastore. For detailed...
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Windows Azure Storage Client for Java Overview
We released the Storage Client for Java with support for Windows Azure Blobs, Queues, and Tables. Our goal is to continue to improve the development experience when writing cloud applications using...
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Getting the Page Ranges of a Large Page Blob in Segments
One of the blob types supported by Windows Azure Storage is the Page Blob. Page Blobs provide efficient storage of sparse data by physically storing only pages that have been written and not cleared....
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CloudDrive::Mount() API takes a long time when the drive has millions of files
Windows Azure Drive is in Preview, and we have identified an issue with the CloudDrive::Mount() API where it will take 5 to 20 minutes to mount a drive that contains millions of files. In these cases,...
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CloudDrive: Possible Data Loss when calling Create() or CreateIfNotExist() on...
Windows Azure Drive is in Preview, and we recently identified a timing bug in the CloudDrive Client Library (SDK 1.6 and earlier) which can cause your CloudDrive to be accidentally deleted when you...
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PartitionKey or RowKey containing the percent ‘%’ character causes some...
Description and Symptoms We have identified an issue that would affect services using Windows Azure Tables whenever the percent character ‘%’ appears as part of the PartitionKey or RowKey. The affected...
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Character Encoding Issues Related to Copy Blob API
This blog applies to the 2011-08-18 storage version or earlier of the Copy Blob API and the Windows Azure Storage Client Library version 1.6. Two separate problems are discussed in this blog: Over...
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10x Price Reduction for Windows Azure Storage Transactions
We heard you loud and clear that you want cheaper transaction costs for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables, Queues, and Drives. We are therefore very pleased today to slash transaction prices 10 fold for...
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New Storage Features on the Windows Azure Portal
We are excited to announce several new storage features available on the Windows Azure Portal. With the updated Portal you have the ability to choose the level of redundancy for your storage,...
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Introducing Locally Redundant Storage for Windows Azure Storage
We are excited to offer two types of redundant storage for Windows Azure: Locally Redundant Storage and Geo Redundant Storage. Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) provides highly durable and available...
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New Blob Lease Features: Infinite Leases, Smaller Lease Times, and More
We are excited to introduce some new features with the Lease Blob API with the 2012-02-12 version of Windows Azure Blob Storage service. The 2012-02-12 version also includes some versioned changes....
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Introducing Table SAS (Shared Access Signature), Queue SAS and update to Blob...
We’re excited to announce that, as part of version 2012-02-12, we have introduced Table Shared Access Signatures (SAS), Queue SAS and updates to Blob SAS. In this blog, we will highlight usage...
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