What Are Azure Blobs

Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured object data, such as text or binary data. You can use Blob storage to expose data publicly to the world, or to store application data privately. Common uses of Blob storage include: Serving images or documents directly to a browser.

What is meant by Blob storage?

Blob storage is a feature in Microsoft Azure that lets developers store unstructured data in Microsoft’s cloud platform. This data can be accessed from anywhere in the world and can include audio, video and text. Blobs are grouped into “containers” that are tied to user accounts.

What is the difference between S3 and Azure blob?

S3 has a maximum of 100 buckets per account, 5 TB per object and 5GB per PUT operation. Azure has a maximum of 100 x 500 TB accounts per subscription, with 500 TB per blob container, about 195 GB per block blob, and 4MB per block.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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Alexander Ross has covered the video game industry for a decade, writing deep dives on game design, esports tournaments, VR developments, and gaming culture.

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