Question - What is Azure Blob Storage?
Answer -
Azure Blob (binary large object) storage is the object storage solution for the cloud. It is capable of storing large unstructured data in text or binary format and is suitable for serving documents, media, or text to the browser directly. The data is accessible from anywhere.
The blobs are grouped into containers and tied to user accounts. This service has three components:
- Storage account: This can be a general storage account or a blob storage account registered in Microsoft Azure.
- Container: Containers are used for grouping blobs. Each container can store an unlimited number of blobs. The container name should be in lowercase.
- Blob: A blob is a file or document of any type and size. Three kinds of blobs are supported by Azure:
- Block blobs: Text and binary files up to 195GB, 50,000 blocks of maximum 4 MB each
- Append blobs: Appends operations such as logging data in log files
- Page blobs: For frequent read or write operations