Developing Cloud Applications with Windows Azure™ Storage

Chapter 3. Windows Azure data storage accounts

In this chapter:

• Set up your Windows Azure subscription

• IDs, subscriptions, and storage accounts

• Subscription certificates for authentication

• Primary and secondary access keys

• Service management API

• Affinity groups

• Storage emulator

• Multi-tenancy

• Conclusion

This chapter will familiarize you with all of the core concepts necessary to set up and manage storage accounts in Windows Azure, including security and the relationships between key data storage components, by using the Service Management API. The Service Management API is platform-agnostic and language-agnostic. However, in case you’re developing on the Microsoft platform, you will learn about the Windows Azure storage emulator, which simulates blob, table, ...