{"id":7395,"date":"2020-04-15T08:54:23","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T08:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/?p=7395"},"modified":"2021-05-10T06:50:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:50:43","slug":"what-is-microsoft-azure-blob-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudkul.com\/blog\/what-is-microsoft-azure-blob-storage\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Azure Blob Storage : A cloud based object storage solution"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Microsoft Azure Storage is a cloud service operate by Microsoft that offers highly affordable, secure, reliable, robust and massively scalable storage. Whether these are images, audios, videos, logs, configuration files, or any data form, data must be store in a manner that is readily accessible, and Microsoft Azure Storage offers solutions for each of these potential use cases. It’s capability to store objects is nearly unlimited. Additionally it uses a pay-as-you-go pricing model that suits your business whether you only store a few hundred GBs or trillions of data. Moreover, it also provides various storage services like, Standard Storage including storage forms of Blob, Table, Queue, and File, and Premium Storage- Azure VM disks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Microsoft Azure Blob Storage<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Generally, the word “Blob”<\/strong> originates from databases, where you can store a huge binary object (file) in a database. Microsoft Azure Blob Storage<\/strong> is design to store large unstructured amounts of data along with their meta-data. Thus, files can be store, at very low cost, in containers (folders). Where you can store any number of Blob files up to 500 TB in size. Each Blob has a size of 2GB. You may also use Blob storage for data backup. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why Use Blob Storage?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Most of what data users do with storage is about managing unstructured data like logs, files, images, videos, etc. Blob storage  is a way to solve the difficulty of needing to deploy various database systems for various types of data. This provides users with good data consistency, storage and access flexibility that fits the user’s needs, and also provides high availability through geo-replication implementation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Blob Storage Resources<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Storage Account<\/strong> :<\/strong> Under this account, each object you store has an address that contains your unique account name. And it also forms the object’s base address by combining account name and azure storage blob endpoints in your storage account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition, it also provides three types of tiers<\/strong> which are selected, at the creation’s time of storage account :<\/p>\n\n\n\n