Windows Azure Storage Explorers

We get a few queries every now and then on the availability of utilities for Windows Azure Storage and decided to put together a list of the storage explorers we know of. The tools are all Windows Azure Storage explorers that can be used to enumerate and/or transfer data to and from blobs, tables or queues. Many of these are free and some come with evaluation periods.

I should point out that we have not verified the functionality claimed by these utilities and their listing does not imply an endorsement by Microsoft. Since these applications have not been verified, it is possible that they could exhibit undesirable behavior.

Do also note that the table below is a snapshot of what we are currently aware of and we fully expect that these tools will continue to evolve and grow in functionality. If there are corrections or updates, please click on the email link on the right and let us know. Likewise if you know of tools that ought to be here, we’d be happy to add them.

In the below table, we list each Windows Azure Storage explorer, and then put an “X” in each block if it provides the ability to either enumerate and/or access the data abstraction. The last column indicates if the explorer is free or not.

(Table updated on 1/5/2011)

Windows Azure Storage Explorer	Block Blob	Page Blob	Tables	Queues	Free
Azure Blob Studio 2011	X	X	.	.	Y
Azure Blob Compressor Enables compressing blobs for upload and download	X	.	.	.	Y
Azure Blob Explorer	X	.	.	.	Y
Azure Storage Explorer	X	X	X	X	Y
Azure Storage Explorer for Eclipse	X	X	X	X	Y
Azure Storage Simple Viewer	X	.	X	X	Y
Azure Web Storage Explorer A portal to access blobs, tables and queues	X	X	X	X	Y
Cerebrata Cloud Storage Studio	X	X	X	X	Y/N
Cloud Berry Explorer	X	X	.	.	Y
Clumsy Leaf Azure Explorer Visual studio plug-in	X	X	X	X	Y/N
Factonomy Azure Utility	X	.	.	.	Y
Gladinet Cloud Desktop	X	.	.	.	Y
MyAzureStorage.com A portal to access blobs, tables and queues	X	X	X	X	Y
Space Block	X	.	.	.	Y
Windows Azure Management Tool	X	X	X	X	Y
Windows Azure Storage Explorer for Visual Studio 2010	X	X	X	.	Y

Dinesh Haridas

Comments

• Anonymous
  April 16, 2010
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• Anonymous
  August 17, 2010
  Clumsy Leaf Azure Explorer  is not free as marked. It's $50 per license.

• Anonymous
  August 26, 2010
  None of the above is a web application, is there a web explorer? When you upload a new package, you can browse your blob to located it in storage. I'd like to have similar web functionality rather than simple win form app

• Anonymous
  August 27, 2010
  Cerebrata for one offers a browser based storage explorer. It requires a Silverlight enabled browser and currently is free to use

• Anonymous
  October 23, 2010
  I thought I'd mention that version 4 of Azure Storage Explorer is out and now suppports page blobs. azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com/.../basic

• Anonymous
  December 30, 2010
  Hi, I would like to let you know that my Azure Blob Client is now "Azure Blob Studio 2011", with new features targeting Windows Azure SDK 1.3. It is now also available both as a stand-alone WPF client and as an extension for Visual Studio 2010. With async support now things go better :-) The updated URL is: azureblobstudio.codeplex.com Thanks for the mention!

• Anonymous
  January 16, 2011
  I would feel MS should develop one better tool which will give more information like :

1. Query -> result
2. Time took for processing
3. Request id's
4. Diagnostic information.

• Anonymous
  March 11, 2013
  You can also use the Blob Transfer Utility to download and upload all your blob files. It's a tool to handle thousands of (small/large) blob transfers in a effective way. Binaries and source code, here: http://bit.ly/blobtransfer

• Anonymous
  July 11, 2013
  Please could you add Zudio to the list? It's a full-on web-based management studio for Blobs, Tables and Queues, with a one month free trial and very reasonable subscription rates. https://zud.io/

• Anonymous
  August 16, 2013
  Thanks for the great list! Is that list updated? Can you mark which OS is supported? (I'm looking for tools that are running on Ubuntu) Thanks

• Anonymous
  August 16, 2013
  A new kid on the block - Cloud Combine. Just like "SQL Management Studio" but for Azure and some other clouds. Not so many features yet but it is HQ and just works the way it should: www.gapotchenko.com/cloudcombine

• Anonymous
  August 17, 2013
  None of these appear to work on Mac.  Is that the case?  Its not possible to manage Azure storage from a Mac??? Many thanks, Ben

• Anonymous
  September 25, 2013
  @mark - zud.io is web based.

• Anonymous
  October 03, 2013
  If you want to synchronize files with Windows Azure Storage, I recommend you to use BestSync. www.risefly.com/fsedwld.htm BestSync finds the difference between the local folder and Azure Storage container, and download and upload only changed files by flexible schedule.

• Anonymous
  March 17, 2014
  A tool developed by Microsoft would be a good idea. Azure storage explorer for example is just too slow: The UI blocks too often, too long. Can you add a column to your overview giving a rating for the performance of the tools? Thank you!