November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
276 pages
7h 6m
English
Content preview from Learning Microsoft Azure Storage
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
Start your free trial
Blob storage accounts
Unlike a general-purpose storage account, not all Azure Storage services are meant to be stored in a Blob storage account because they are dedicated to storing unstructured data. Therefore, a Blob storage service is the only type allowed to be accessed by a Blob storage account. However, it only supports block and appends Blobs.
A Blob storage account has a usage pattern called access tiers, which determines how frequently you access your data and based on that you will get billed.
Currently, there are two types:
- Hot access tier
- Cool access tier