I have an ASP.NET application running on shared hosting and want to use Windows Azure blob storage to store images (my shared hosting has limited storage). My application will upload and download these images from/to the client PC.
I created a new cloud project to test this out and got it working successfully with the offline storage emulator, but I noticed that the cloud project has a web worker role which, I believe, needs a compute instance when deployed to Azure. Azure storage is very cheap, but if I need a compute instance for my application to talk to to access it then it becomes much more expensive, even with the smallest instance.
My question is - do I need a compute instance in order to upload and download files to blob storage or can my application talk directly to the blob storage?
