For customers needing to store large sets of unstructured data, Blob storage offers an attractive and scalable answer. The types of data that can be retained in Blob storage are—documents, photos, music, videos, blogs, file backup, databases, images and text for web applications, big data, or configuration data for cloud applications.
Containers offer a useful way to assign security policies to sets of objects; each blob is assigned a container. A storage account can hold indefinite containers; a container may contain an indefinite number of blobs. The only restriction is the 500 TB capacity limit of the storage account.
There are three types of blobs:
- Block blobs: Block blobs are utilized for streaming and storing cloud objects. They are best used for storing documents, media files, backups, and so on.
- Append blobs: Block blobs are used for streaming and storing; append blobs fulfill the same task with the addition that they are optimized for append...