Azure Blob storage with Unity's Addressable Asset system

In this section, we'll cover the Azure Blob storage service in Microsoft's Azure Cloud and how to use it with Unity's Addressable Asset system.

Azure Blob storage is a type of Azure Storage account in Azure. Other types of Azure Storage accounts include queues, file shares, and tables. Among them, Blob storage is very suitable for storing large amounts of unstructured data such as binary data.

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You can find additional information and resources about the Azure Storage account in Microsoft's Azure Cloud at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction.

Unity's Addressable Asset system, as the name suggests, provides a convenient method for loading specific assets, whether on the local or remote server, according to a specific address. When discussing the Resources folder in the previous section, we discussed various limitations when using it in terms of...