Exploring Azure Storage
Azure has multiple storage options that can suit a wide range of applications and domains. You will explore the most common ones in the following sections.
Azure Blob Storage
Blob Storage is the most common storage type in Azure. It can be used to store unstructured data such as videos, audio, metadata, log files, text, and binary. It is also a highly scalable and cost-effective storage solution. It provides support for tiered storage, so the data can be stored at different tiers based on their access pattern and usage frequency. Highly used data can be kept at hot tiers and not-so-used data in cold tiers. Historical data can be archived.
The data in Blob Storage can be easily accessed via Representational State Transfer (REST) (one way of implementing web services) endpoints, as well as client libraries available in a wide set of languages, such as .NET, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, and Node.js.
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