Storage service - reusing public name

Question

I've had a storage account for a few months and had no trouble with it. Today I decided to delete it and recreate it under the same public name because it wasn't associated with an Affinity Group. After recreating the storage account I cannot access it. The Visual Studio 2010 integration in Server Explorer gives me the error below when I try to expand the Blobs container.

I'm convinced this has something to do with reusing the public name because I can create another new storage account with a different name ('1' appended to the public name) and it works perfectly. I also have tried deleting and recreating the storage account reusing the public name a couple of times with no change.

Any ideas what's wrong and how I can make this work again?

<Error>

  <Code>ResourceNotFound</Code>

  <Message>The specified resource does not exist.

RequestId:fe9c6fc0-8557-4817-85ee-091ab889912f

Time:2010-10-05T23:24:57.5079103Z</Message>

</Error>

Answer 1

I believe that deleted service names take some time to be made available again. This comes up occasionaly on the Azure Forum and, if memory serves, it might be something like a day.

Answer 2

It does seem to have resolved itself after a few hours (maybe less). This seems like a bug that should be addressed. The inconsistent behavior leads one to believe they set something up incorrectly. Perhaps I'll submit it if I can figure out where to do that.

Anyway, thanks.