This chapter provided an overview of the Microsoft Azure Storage services—Tables, Queues, and Blobs—and the use of the Tables service for storing data within the cloud storage using API and Visual Studio Server Explorer. Microsoft Azure Storage is one of the main components of Microsoft Azure, offering cloud storage in a scalable and redundant way. Being a REST-based service, Microsoft Azure Storage functionality is agile and can be consumed from any platform that supports HTTP.

In the next chapter, we will continue the exploration of data options in Microsoft Azure and will look at DocumentDB—the NoSQL document database—and Microsoft Azure Marketplace using MongoLab MongoDB as an example.