Today, we are releasing a preview of the Windows Azure Service Management API to help you manage your deployments, hosted services and storage accounts. This is a REST-based API which users can code against in their toolset of choice to manage their services
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Read the complete post at http://blogs.msdn.com/windowsazure/archive/2009/09/17/introducing-the-windows-azure-service-management-api.aspx