Blobs

- [Instructor] Azure storage blobs…offer unstructured storage in the cloud.…It's the general purpose storage.…It's comparable with Amazon Web Services S3…and we have three types of blobs in Azure Storage.…One is called block blobs,…and this is what you would expect from a blob.…You can upload the whole thing at once…and you can make changes to parts of it,…blocks within a blob.…We have a page blob, which is…what we use for virtual machine disks,…and we have an append blob, which is append only.…

We can access Azure Storage…through multiple client libraries, of course.….NET, Java, Node.js, and so forth.…And if none of those fit your needs,…then you can talk to the REST API directly.…Now, the use cases for block blobs are manyfold…and just think of it as your file system in the cloud.…General storage with one significant consideration:…We do have a tiering option.…So, if we pick a storage account…that is made specifically for blobs,…so not a general purpose storage account,…then we can choose hot, cool, or archive storage tiering.…