As previously mentioned, the difference between the Blob storage and the general purpose storage is to be found in the purpose of usage. While the Blob storage stores unstructured data, the general purpose account stores structured data. Azure differentiates between four types of storage: Blob, Queue, Table, and File storage. It's important to understand the scopes, in order to be able to decide for a certain type of storage.
For customers needing to store large sets of unstructured data, Blob storage offers an attractive and scalable answer. The types of data may 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...