Blob storage ¶
What is Blob?¶
Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data
. Unstructured data is data that doesn't adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data.
How to access Blob?
Users or client applications can access objects in Blob Storage via HTTP/HTTPS, from anywhere in the world.
3 kinds of blob storage
Block
: Variable size blocks, optimized for large blobsPage
: fixed size blobs, 512 bytes for example. Optimized for random read/writeAppend
: used for append operations
Tip
Blob Storage supports Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Microsoft's enterprise big data analytics solution for the cloud.
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