Azure Blob Storage (11 min)

What is Azure Blob Storage?

Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's object storage solution designed to store massive amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data, including images, videos, and documents.

Key Features

Blob Storage offers multiple access tiers — hot, cool, and archive — to optimize storage costs based on how frequently data is accessed, along with strong security, redundancy, and scalability options.

Common Use Cases

Blob Storage is widely used for serving images and documents directly to a browser, streaming video and audio, storing data for backup and disaster recovery, and storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.