Exploring Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage provides massively scalable storage for unstructured data. Unstructured data is any data that isn’t stored in the structured database format. This can be anything: binary, text files, images, or videos. Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines store the disk images in Blob Storage.
Blob is an acronym for binary large object.
Azure currently supports three different types of blobs:
- Block blobs: A block blob is managed as a set of blocks. The size of each block varies up to 100 MB. A block blob can contain up to 50,000 blocks. The maximum size is over 4.7 TB. A block is the smallest amount of data that can be read or written as a unit. Block blobs are great for storing separate large binary objects that rarely change.
- Page blobs: A page blob is organized as a collection of fixed-size 512-byte pages. A page blob is optimized to support random read and write operations; you can fetch and store data for a single page if necessary...
