Exploring Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is the most important part of the Azure storage account and one of the oldest existing Azure services. Back in the day when the Azure classic services were released to customers, only a couple of services existed: VMs and storage to persist VM disks. Originally, Azure Storage was set up to persist large files, that were gigabytes in size, and provide random access to them. Now, most VM disks have already moved to managed disks but a storage account is still used to persist files – for example, backups, logs, and performance metrics. Modern Azure storage accounts are designed for persisting semi-structured data in tables and JSON files in blobs. Blobs are also good for persisting binary or unstructured data such as media, documents, or encrypted content. Azure storage accounts provide enormous resiliency, high availability, and strong security. Moreover, they are quite easy to connect and operate from code. You’ll probably...