There are many Scenarios were count is useful. Ich I write logs to Azure Tables most of the time i want to retreive the last n entries. It would be great if there would be something like TakeLast(int i) or Skip(int i) for doing something like Skip(count - take).Take(take).

I would like the ability to set different endpoints for different service configurations. When I change the Service Configuration to Local I get a warning saying that I can only change the Endpoints for all configurations.

More details here: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsazuredevelopment/thread/374b2eb7-281a-4b27-bba0-917863ab8653/

I need to search similar images to the given one instead of image search by phrase. This feature is already implemented by Google or TinEye and I miss it.

If raw logs were made available and posted to blob storage, developers could use them for sub-billing our customers for their usage of the CDN.

In many common services I want to know which customers I have and give them access to my service. So my suggestion: create a billing API, including access control. If a new customer registers to my service (via Pinpoint (?)), my application should be able to give him access without changes and through an easy-to-use billing/access control API. Furthermore I want to bill the customer automatically and give him more features like trial of my service etc.

I can be logged into Google\Gmail with multiple accounts at once i.e. work and personal, and easily switch between accounts. (
http://support.google.com/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=1721977 ). I should be able to do this with azure portal.

Currently affinity groups support grouping only hosted services and storage accounts. The location of the database server is also critical for applications that rely on database performance and enabling affinity groups to include database servers is one way to solve this issue.

As of 2011 the finest granularity that is allowed is to specify the same region, which still may create your database server in a datacenter hundreds of kilometers away and in combination with SQL Azure throttling spoil the overall performance of the application.

VS2010 Schema Compare doesn't work with Azure, it would be nice if it did :)

It will be great if we can have windows sharepoint services directly on azure environment.

Since you don't have a separate role to access invoices without providing privileges to mess up the rest of the system, I suggest you let us define an email address to send invoices to. I need to send invoices to our accounting department. I don't want to provide them access to Azure where they could shut off services accidentally. This would violate my security commitments to our corporate customers.

I should not have to worry about having a credit card bill because I make a mistake, or misunderstand how the platform, and its billing works. I am OK with having restrictions that shut me down completly when my monthly free alocattion runs out as long as i am not faced with an unforseen bill.

The new Management portal introduces the concept of linked resources. This feature is very useful, but there is not public api to manage these linked resources.
We are currently working on the automated deployment of our application to Azure, but this still needs to remain a manual step.
Please add (document) the REST api to manage linked resources and add a Powershell cmdlet to access the api.

As far as I understand, there is currently no method for getting the total number of blobs in a single container.

And there is also the maximum number of blobs per request (5.000).

We have containers with 10k - 100k blobs so we would really need a way of quickly checking the number of blobs that are in a container.

Provide a cohesive developer experience to allow an efficient transition to Azure development. Catalog and reference existing developer resources and place them on one portal.

Just like in plain vanilla ASP.NET, and support per-vdir deployment.