November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
606 pages
15h 7m
English
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Blob Storage concepts
Before we go deeper into the service, you will have to understand the basic concepts of Blob Storage. Here you can find a diagram that clearly defines three main topics:
As you can see, we have three different concepts:
- Account: Which is basically your Storage Account and stores all data within a Blob Storage.
- Container: Which is a logical entity holding an unlimited amount of blobs inside it. An account can have an unlimited amount of containers.
- Blob: A file stored within a container.
Additionally, there are three different types of blob:
- Block blob: Text or binary data with a maximum size of 4.7 TB. Such a blob ...