Please download AzCopy CTP2 here , and there is a previous blog of AzCopy CTP1 here as a reference New features have been added in this release Support of Cross-Account Copy Blob: AzCopy allows you to copy blobs within same storage accounts or between...

The client issues detailed in this blog have been resolved in version 2.0.4 or earlier, and you can obtain the latest NuGet Package here . We recently released the 2.0 version of the Windows Azure Storage Client Library. This is our largest update to...

One of the frequent requests we receive is for a simple way to upload or download files between Windows Azure Blob Storage and their local file system. We’re pleased to release AzCopy (Beta Version), which is a command line utility which allows Windows...

This blog post serves as an overview to the recently released Windows Azure Storage Client for .Net and the Windows Runtime. In addition to the legacy implementation shipped in versions 1.x that is based on DataServiceContext, we have also provided a...

We are excited to be releasing two libraries for Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 as Community Technology Preview (CTP) that fully support the Windows Runtime platform. These libraries can be used to build Windows Store applications on both ARM and X86...

Earlier this year, we deployed a flat network for Windows Azure across all of our datacenters to create Flat Network Storage (FNS) for Windows Azure Storage. We used a flat network design in order to provide very high bandwidth network connectivity for...

  An updated Know Issues Blog Post can be found by clicking on this link The client issues detailed in this blog have been resolved in version 2.0.4 or earlier, and you can obtain the latest NuGet Package here . We recently released the 2.0 version...

In our continuous endeavor to enrich the development experience, we are extremely pleased to announce the new Storage Emulator, which has much improved parity with the Windows Azure Storage cloud service. What is Storage Emulator? Storage Emulator emulates...

The recently released Windows Azure Storage Client Library for .Net includes many new features, expanded platform support, extensibility points, and performance improvements. In developing this version of the library we made some distinct breaks with...

Today we are releasing version 2.0 of the Windows Azure Storage Client Library. This is our largest update to our .NET library to date which includes new features, broader platform compatibility, and revisions to address the great feedback you’ve...

Windows Azure Storage has had an amazing year of growth. We have over 4 trillion objects stored, process an average of 270,000 requests per second, and reach peaks of 880,000 requests per second. About a year ago we hit the 1 trillion object mark....

With the preview of Windows Azure Virtual Machines , we have two new special types of blobs stored in Windows Azure Storage: Windows Azure Virtual Machine Disks and Window Azure Virtual Machine Images. And of course we also have the existing preview of...

We just published a paper describing how we Erasure Code data in Windows Azure Storage that won a Best Paper Award at the June 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference . This was joint work between Microsoft Research and the Windows Azure Storage team...

We are very excited to release multiple improvements to Windows Azure Storage. These include price reductions, new manageability features, and new service features for Windows Azure Blobs, Tables, and Queues. Jai Haridas will be presenting these features...

We are excited to introduce some changes to the Copy Blob API with 2012-02-12 version that allows you to copy blobs between storage accounts. This enables some interesting scenarios like: Backup your blobs to another storage account without having to...

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 scenarios for these new features along with sample code using...

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. This blog post covers the new features and changes as...

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 storage within a single location (sub region). We maintain...

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, enable/disable and configure both Metrics and Logging, and...

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 Windows Azure Storage and CDN. This means that it now...

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 REST, the service expects the ‘+’ character appearing...

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 APIs are GET entity, Merge Entity, Update Entity...

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 call ‘Create()’ or ‘CreateIfNotExist()’ on an existing...

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, the majority of time used by CloudDrive::Mount...

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. Each page is 512 bytes in size. The Get Page Ranges...