One of the popular feature of Microsoft Azure is Azure Blob Storage. This feature help us to store massive amounts of unstructured data such as text or binary data. Using this service you can create storage to build powerful cloud-native, web and mobile apps. Java, .NET, Python, Node.js like most popular development framework supported by the blob Storage. This Microsoft feature is a low-cost storage, supports high availability and provides strong consistency, not only that it has the disaster recovery capability.
Blob storage used for:
- Distributed access of files.
- Storing images or documents directly to the browser.
- Streaming audio and video files
- For backup and restore, disaster recovery, archiving etc.
Types of blobs:
- Block blobs: For storing text and binary data. It can store up to 190.7 TiB.
- Append blobs: Append blobs are used for verifications such as logging data from virtual machines.
- Page blobs: For storing random access files such as virtual hard drive (VHD) files and serve as disks for Azure virtual machines up to 8 TiB.
Three types of resources we get from blob Storage.
- Storage account
- Container
- Blob
