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What is Azure Blob Storage?
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Azure Blob storage is the object storage solution provided by Microsoft for the cloud. Blob stands for “Binary Large Object”. Blob-based storage is used to store massive unstructured data in terms of text or binary format. It is ideal for serving documents/images/audio/video/text directly to browser.
The data stored in the blob storage is accessible from anywhere in the world. The blobs are tied to user accounts by grouping them into containers. The Azure Blob Service has 3 components:
Storage Account: This can be a General Storage Account or Blob Storage Account registered in Microsoft Azure.
Container: Container is used for grouping blobs. We can store an unlimited number of blobs in a container. The name of the container should start in lowercase.
Blob: A blob is a Binary Large Object like a file or document of any type and size. There are 3 kinds of Blobs supported by Azure:
Block blobs: These are intended for text and binary files and can support up to 195GB, i.e up to 50k blocks of up to 4MB each.
Append blobs: These are used for appending operations like logging data in log files.
Page blobs: These are meant for frequent read/write operations.
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