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 ...

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