The Windows Azure team released a Community Technology Preview of the Windows Azure Service Management API the other day.  This API is REST-based, and currently supports the following operations (according to the Windows Azure team blog):

  • Deployments – Viewing, creating, deleting, swapping, modifying configuration settings, changing instance counts, and updating the deployment.
  • Listing and viewing properties for hosted services, storage accounts and affinity groups

    Also, x509 certificates are used for authentication, and there’s a small tool called csmanage.exe to help you manage deployments and use the API. 

    This is, of course, CTP – so be prepared for some changes along the way to RTW.

    A couple resource links:

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