Cloud Storage Studio

A tool dedicated to Windows Azure storage

Our long-standing Windows Azure storage manipulation tool includes broad functionality for managing your Windows Azure blobs, tables and queues.


Windows Azure Storage

Windows Azure Storage

Cloud Storage Studio provides broad coverage of the Windows Azure Storage Services API, supporting a wide range of common storage related tasks.

Storage Accounts

  • Add storage accounts by key
  • Add storage accounts by subscription
  • Organize storage accounts into logical groups e.g Test and Production
  • Create and delete storage accounts without visiting the Portal
  • Manage development storage
  • Configure and view storage analytics
  • Chart storage usage
  • Track key metrics
    • Container count
    • Blob count
    • Utilization
  • Toggle Read-Only mode to prevent accidental deletes
  • Configure storage account access permissions
  • Set list, create, delete rights on
    • Blob containers
    • Tables
    • Queues
    • Access policies
    • Metadata
    • Analytics
  • Configure and view geo-replication information
  • Regenerate storage account keys

Blob Containers

  • List blob containers
  • Create blob containers
  • Delete blob containers
  • Download blob containers
  • Manage the root blob container
  • Set blob container metadata
  • View blob container properties
  • Manage blob container access policies
  • Set blob container permissions (ACL)
  • Generate shared access signatures
    • From an access policy
    • Using an ad hoc rule
  • Show blob container storage statistics
  • Snapshot all blobs in a blob container
  • Set properties on all blobs in a blob container

Blobs

  • List blobs
  • Upload and download blobs
  • Drag files from Windows Explorer
  • Organize blobs into folders
    • Flat listing
    • Folder listings
  • Delete blobs
  • Rename blobs
  • Move blobs between storage accounts
  • Copy blobs between storage accounts
  • Import blob from a URL
  • View and set blob metadata
  • View and set blob properties
  • Take blob snapshots
  • Promote blob snapshots
  • Copy blob URL
  • Upload page blobs
  • Create empty page blobs
  • Pause, resume and cancel blob operations
  • Automatically compress transfers
  • Highly configurable
    • Set block size on transfers
    • Set number of concurrent transfers

Tables

  • List tables
  • Create empty tables
  • Create tables from
    • CSV
    • XML
    • Relational database
  • Delete tables
  • Purge table data
    • By date/time range
    • By query
  • Download table data to
    • CSV
    • XML
  • Insert entities
  • Import entities from
    • CSV
    • XML
    • Relational database
  • List entities
  • Edit entities
  • Delete entities
  • Query table data
  • Query builder
  • Save and manage table queries
  • Highly configurable
    • Control pagination
    • Customize visible attributes

Queues

  • List queues
  • Create queues
  • Delete queues
  • View and set queue metadata
  • View queue properties
  • Manage queue access policies
  • Generate shared access signatures
    • From an access policy
    • Using an ad hoc rule
  • Peek and get messages
  • Insert messages
  • Update messages
  • Delete individual messages
  • Delete all messages
  • Move messages between queues
  • Highly configurable
    • Control message visibility
    • Change message view format
      • UTF8
      • Base 64 encoded
      • Byte

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Windows Azure Management

Windows Azure Management

Cloud Storage Studio includes broad coverage of the Windows Azure Service Management API, letting you manage your Windows Azure applications without visiting the Windows Azure Management Portal.

Subscriptions

  • Manage your subscriptions
  • Manage services under your subscriptions
  • Import subscriptions using your publish settings file

Cloud Services

  • Manage cloud services
    • List cloud services
    • Create cloud services
    • Delete cloud services
    • View cloud service properties
  • Manage deployments
    • Create deployments
    • Start deployments
    • Stop deployments
    • Delete deployments
    • View deployment properties
    • Upgrade deployments
    • VIP swap production and staging deployments
    • Promote a staging deployment to production
    • Change a deployment’s service configuration (cscfg)
    • Perform both manual and automatic deployment upgrades
  • View role instance properties
  • Upgrade roles
  • Change role instance counts
  • Reboot a role instance
  • Reimage a role instance
  • Connect to a role instance via RDP
  • Manage the SSL certificates associated with a cloud service
  • List the affinity groups associated with a subscription

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We work closely with our users and the Windows Azure community to ensure that our tools meet their needs. If you think we are missing a feature or some functionality, then we'd love to hear it. Either reach out to our product manager or add it directly to our Uservoice page.

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