Announcing the Launch of Cloud Storage Studio – a WPF Application to Manage Your Windows Azure Storage & Hosted Services

UPDATE: Cloud Storage Studio has been replaced by Azure Management Studio

After 6 months of private/public beta and over ten iterations I am pleased to announce the availability of Cloud Storage Studio for purchase.

What is Cloud Storage Studio?

Cloud Storage Studio is a WPF application to manage your Windows Azure Storage and Hosted Applications. Using Cloud Storage Studio, you can manage your tables, queues & blob containers as well as manage your hosted applications (deploy, delete, upgrade etc.). Using one interface you can connect to the development storage running on your computer as well as cloud storage.

Features:

Following is the summary of all the features of Cloud Storage Studio:

• Storage account management
  • Connect to one or more storage accounts simultaneously.
  • Development storage is also supported.
  • Ability to persist storage account information so that you don’t have to type in your account name/key to connect.
  • Ability to auto connect to your storage accounts.
• Tables/entities management
  • Create/delete tables.
  • Create/edit/delete entities [ability to edit/delete multiple entities is also supported].
  • Ability to filter by PartitionKey.
  • Query your table storage.
  • Download your table data to your computer in XML format.
  • Upload data from SQL Server/MySQL databases as well as XML documents
  • Manually insert entities.
• Queue/messages management
  • Create/delete queue.
  • Update queue metadata.
  • Create message.
  • List messages [using PEEK and not GET].
  • Auto refresh queues [Configurable. When this feature is turned on in configuration settings, the queues will auto refresh after a period of time specified by you].
  • Clear messages [Delete messages is not supported in this application].
• Blob containers/blobs management
  • Create/delete blob containers.
  • Update container metadata.
  • Create/update/delete container ACL (it includes defining container as Public/Private as well as granular access policies). For more information about this, please read this thread http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/f8336cc0-74e3-4d29-af46-f563c263ba86.
  • Upload blobs: You can upload one or more files, folders in one shot. You can drag files and folders from your desktop/windows explorer and drop them on the application upload blob window to add them to upload queue. You can also copy the files/folders on the clipboard and paste them on the application upload blob window to add them to upload queue. While uploading you can define if you want to split a blob into blocks or not. You can pause/resume/cancel upload session as well.
  • Download blobs: You can download one or more files in one shot. While downloading you can specify where you want these files to be stored on your computer. Like upload, you can pause/resume/cancel download session. Like upload again, you can specify if you want to download blobs in blocks or not.
  • Copy blobs
  • Move blobs
  • Rename blob
  • Delete blobs
  • Generate signed URL for blob. Again see this thread for more details http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazure/thread/f8336cc0-74e3-4d29-af46-f563c263ba86.
  • Generate blob snapshots
  • View/delete/promote blob snapshots
• Service management
  • Manage one or more subscriptions and one or more hosted services in each of the subscriptions.
  • Create/update/delete/run your deployments.
  • Swap production and staging deployments.
  • Promote a staging deployment (only when production deployment is not available).
  • Perform both manual and automatic service upgrades.
  • Update the service configurations.
  • Manage SSL certificates associated with hosted services.
  • View the affinity groups.
  • View service properties.
• Other features
  • Request Inspector: We have built a “Fiddler” like utility inside the application using which you can track your requests and responses made to the storage engine.
  • Configurable: There are lots of configuration features available in this application.

Pricing/Version Information:

Following table summarizes the pricing/version information:

After your trial expires, the application will automatically switch to developer edition.

# Volume discounts are also available.