Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage is an object storage offering from the Azure cloud. It is tuned for storing large amounts of data, in terms of the number of objects as well as the size of objects. Blob stands for binary large objects and images and videos are some of the file types that fall into this category. You can store any type and amount of unstructured data in blob storage. Some of the common usage patterns for blob storage are as follows:
- Media storage for images and videos to be centrally distributed
- Serving images or documents to the end customers directly
- Streaming multimedia content
- Data backup, archiving, and disaster recovery
- Data storage for big data analysis – known as data lakes
Like most other services, Blob Storage can be accessed from its REST API, the portal, the Azure CLI, or client SDKs in various languages. With SDKs, you can programmatically integrate Blob Storage into your applications.
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