
400 ◾ Cloud Database Development and Management
11.5 Use of Queue Storage
e Windows Azure Queue storage is used to temporarily store messages that will be passed from
one Windows Azure component to another component, for example, from a Windows Azure Web
role to a Windows Azure Worker role. A Queue storage account can hold as much as 100 TB
data in the Queue storage. e size of a single message can be up to 64 kB. Like the Blob storage,
the Queue storage also has three components: storage account, queues, and messages stored in a
queue. A message stored in a queue can be accessed through a URL assigned to the message.
When the storage acc