Nope :) It's all done under the covers as part of the management container hosted inside the CSR. The SNS use case does make a lot of sense though, so I'll work on socializing it with the team here to see if it's something we could add in the futur...
You're very welcome; I'm glad I was able to help out.
The REST API is absolutely supported on the CSR, in any environment AWS or otherwise. Once you have the username and password configured, you should be good to go.
At the moment we don't have any...
These are a few very good questions, and the answers should definitely be added to our future guides and documents. In the meantime, I'll try to help out with as much detail here as I can... There is in fact a way to pre-configure the CSR on AWS duri...
Unfortunately Microsoft will not allow us to support the classic mode. Every product added to the Azure Marketplace must now support only Resource Manager and the Preview Portal. They removed the option to support classic mode a few months ago acco...
You're correct that the Azure VM size controls how many NICs you're allowed to create. You're also correct that their Web Portal is incapable of many "network centric" sorts of activities, so you must use Powershell or ARM Templates. As I mentioned...