As you may know, there have been some changes going on for Windows Azure. One of those changes has been related to Affinity.

Windows Azure production applications and storage will no longer be supported in the ‘USA-Northwest’ region.  We will be deleting all Windows Azure applications and storage accounts in the “USA - Northwest” region on October 31st. To move your application/storage, first delete the project using the “Delete Service” button.  Then recreate it, choosing the “USA - Southwest” region.  (It may take a few minutes for your previous application and storage account names to become available again.)

I've been meaning to write a couple of utilities for backing up blobs and storage and this is just the impetus to do so. Point your favorite SVN tool to http://reluctantdba.svn.beanstalkapp.com/demonstrations/trunk/AzureCommands and download the latest and greatest set. There's two new programs, AzureBlobLoader and AzureBlobRetriever. The first utility, AzureBlobLoader, will load a directory...

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