The Service Management REST APIs

The first set of APIs we will discuss are the Service Management APIs, but before that we must mention the management portal. The Azure platform provides a centralized web portal that allows you to manage your subscriptions and services through its interface.

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As of 2014, a new portal was made available, which includes a number of improvements and enhancements such as integrated billing, advanced application lifecycle management and deployment automation features.

All operations that can be performed from the portal for managing the storage accounts in subscriptions can also be done programmatically through the Service Management API. Actually, the portal itself uses the same APIs under the hood to perform such requests.

This programmatic access to such functionality is much needed by cloud applications that are usually designed to support multi-tenancy. Many scenarios require the creation of separate storage accounts for different tenants (customers). The...