This is one in a series of posts on a Windows Azure Learning Plan. You can find the main post here. This one deals with Storage for Windows Azure.
Overview |
Overview and general information about Windows Azure Storage - what it is, how it works, and where you can learn more. |
General Overview Whitepaper (registration of a screen name, but free) |
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/understanding-data-storage-offerings |
Official Microsoft Site on Azure Storage |
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Scalability Targets for Azure Storage |
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Understanding Azure Storage by using the API |
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Blobs |
Blob Storage is a binary-level "container" that can hold one or more streams of data. |
Understanding Block Blobs and Page Blobs |
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Blob Service Concepts |
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Tables |
Tables are key-value-pair type storage, and can be in the terabyte range of size. |
Understanding the Table Storage Data Model |
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Table Service Concepts |
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Querying Tables and Entities |
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Queues |
Queues are actually more table storage - but specifically designed to allow Web and Worker Roles to communicate. |
Queue Service Concepts |
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Queue Service API |
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Azure Drive |
An Azure Drive isn't something you mount over the web (although that's possible to do with a little code) - it's a "local" NTFS drive for Windows Azure Applications. |
Windows Azure Drives white paper |
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Content Delivery Network |
An "Edge" network of storage that buffers after the first use by a client. |
General Overview |
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Delivering High-Bandwidth Content with the Windows Azure CDN |
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Tools and Utilities |
Free and not-free tools to work with Azure Storage. |
Storage SDK |
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsazure.storageclient.aspx |
Benchmarks and Throughput tests |
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Mount an Azure Drive as an NTFS Drive |
http://azurescope.cloudapp.net/CodeSamples/cs/792ce345-256b-4230-a62f-903f79c63a67/ |
Command-line and other tools for working with Azure Storage |
http://tinyurl.com/2acx6d8 and http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/04/17/windows-azure-storage-explorers.aspx |