Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Blob storage

Blob stands for binary large object. This type of service can store almost everything since it stores unstructured data, such as documents, files, images, VHDs, and so on.

Using the Azure Blob storage service makes you capable of storing everything we have just mentioned, and able to access them from anywhere using different access methods, such as URLs, REST APIs, or even one of the Azure SDK Storage Client Libraries, which will be covered later in this chapter.

There are three types of Blob storage:

• Block blobs: They are an excellent choice to store media files, documents, backups, and so on. They are good for files that are read from A-Z (sequential reading).
• Page blobs: They support random access for files stored on them, ...