Developing Cloud Applications with Windows Azure™ Storage

Chapter 5. Blobs

In this chapter:

• Blob basics

• Blob containers

• Blob addressing

• Business use cases

• Blob storage structure

• Navigating blob container hierarchies

• Storage Client library blob types

• Container and blob naming rules

• Performing create, read, update, and delete blob operations

• Shared Access Signatures and shared access policies

• Blob attributes and metadata

• Conditional operations

• Blob leases

• Using block blobs

• Using page blobs

• Blob snapshots

• Continuation tokens and blobs

• Conclusion

In this chapter, you learn about Windows Azure blob storage. First you examine the characteristics of this kind of data storage, including the kinds of real-world data and storage scenarios that lend themselves well to blob storage. You then learn about the organizational structure ...