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With the new WAWS service, you can create default installs of apps like WordPress and DotNetNuke. These apps typically use local storage within the web app dir to hold uploaded content files (images, etc.), but WAWS allows you to easily scale to multiple instances. How are these content directories managed? Is there any published information on this?
There was a session at TechEd North America and Europe about how Windows Azure Web Sites works under the hood.
To briefly summarize:
Storage is provided via Windows Azure Drive (aka XDrive; a component of Windows Azure Storage which is seated in a Page Blob)
Instances share this resource through some “secret sauce” which is proprietary to the Windows Azure Web Sites team.