Chapter 1
Azure Blob Storage
Overview
Microsoft Azure provides an object storage solution called Blob Storage that enables organizations to store large volumes of unstructured data in the cloud. The unstructured data can consist of text data such as log files, XML files, or binary data, such as images, audio, and video files.
The storage allows you to access the unstructured data in many ways, such as the following:
Applications can connect using REST APIs over HTTP/HTTPS.
Users and clients can connect and access the blobs using Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or Azure Storage client libraries.
Azure Blob Storage supports various programming languages, including .NET, Python, Node.js, PHP, Java, and Ruby. This enables developers ...
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