Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob storage is a service that enables you to store massive amounts of unstructured data, or blobs, in the cloud

  • Three types of blobs
    • Block
    • Page
    • Append
  • Container groups related blobs
  • Three access tiers
    • Hot
    • Cool
    • Archive

Advantages of Azure Blob Storage

  • Redundancy (3 times in region)
  • Versioning
  • Soft delete
  • Snapshots
  • Change feed

Use Cases of Azure Blob Storage

  • Serving images/docs from browser
  • Streaming video and audio
  • Storing data for backups and store

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