As the same services of Azure consume the Blob storage as a service, it needed some features to be enabled for complex scenarios. One of these is to allow an Azure virtual machine to exclusively access a blob (a VHD, for example), preventing other clients to access it in any way. To provide this feature, Blob Storage has the lease function: a lock-like status in which a blob cannot be written by anybody except the one who owns the lease.
A blob can be leased for 15 seconds up to 60 seconds (or infinite), and it can be renewed as many times as needed (while it is still locked). This is particularly useful with page blobs as they can be updated with random writes. Indeed, the Azure virtual machines use leases to ensure that only one instance at a time can mount a VHD page blob as a disk.
There are five blob-leasing actions:
AcquireRenewChangeReleaseBreak
The Acquire action is invoked on a blob to acquire a lease on it for a specified...