AZURE BLOB STORAGE

• Service for storing large amount of unstructured object data, such as text or binary data
• Expose data publicly to the world, or store application data privately
• Common uses of blob storage
• Serving images or documents directly to a browser
• Storing files for distributed access
• Storing data for backup and restore, disaster, recovery and archiving

STORAGE ACCOUNT

• All access to storage is done through a storage account.
• This account can be a General purpose or a blob storage.

CONTAINER

• A container provides a grouping of a set of blobs
• All blobs must be in a container
• An account can contain an unlimited number of containers
• A container can store an unlimited no of blobs

BLOB

•  A file of any type and size
• Azure storage offers 3 types of blobs

CREATION OF BLOBS

1.  Create a storage account
2.  Create a container
3.  Create blobs

TYPES OF BLOB
BLOCK BLOBS
 Each blob can be of different size, up to max of 100 mb
used for stoing text and binary