If your windows Azure application is using an SSl certficate, you need to configure it in both your service definition file and .cscfg file. The whole process is explained clearly in the following Microsoft article: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/net/common-tasks/enable-ssl/ Here, I am going to discuss about few considerations while configuring SSL. As you can see from the above Link, the certificate should be defined in the csdef file <Certificates> <Certificate name="SampleCertificate" storeLocation="LocalMachine" storeName="CA" /> </Certificates> The store can be either 'LocalMachine' or 'CurrentUser'. And the storenames can be one of the following - My , Root , CA , Trust , Disallowed , TrustedP...