Microsoft Azure Blob Storage
Scalable, extremely safe, and reasonably priced cloud object storage
Incredibly safe and scalable object storage for high-performance computing, archiving, data lakes, cloud-native workloads, and machine learning.
What is Azure Blob Storage?
Microsoft’s cloud-based object storage solution is called Blob Storage. Massive volumes of unstructured data are best stored in blob storage. Text and binary data are examples of unstructured data, which deviates from a certain data model or specification.
Scalable storage and retrieval of unstructured data
Azure Blob Storage offers storage for developing robust cloud-native and mobile apps, as well as assistance in creating data lakes for your analytics requirements. For your long-term data, use tiered storage to minimize expenses, and scale up flexibly for tasks including high-performance computing and machine learning.
Construct robust cloud-native apps
Azure Blob Storage was designed from the ground up to meet the demands of cloud-native, online, and mobile application developers in terms of availability, security, and scale. For serverless systems like Azure Functions, use it as a foundation. Blob storage is the only cloud storage solution that provides a premium, SSD-based object storage layer for low-latency and interactive applications, and it supports the most widely used development frameworks, such as Java,.NET, Python, and Node.js.
Save petabytes of data in an economical manner
Store enormous volumes of rarely viewed or infrequently accessed data in an economical manner with automated lifecycle management and numerous storage layers. Azure Blob Storage can take the place of your tape archives, and you won’t have to worry about switching between hardware generations.
Construct robust data lakes
One of the most affordable and scalable data lake options for big data analytics is Azure Data Lake Storage. It helps you accelerate your time to insight by fusing the strength of a high-performance file system with enormous scalability and economy. Data Lake Storage is tailored for analytics workloads and expands the possibilities of Azure Blob Storage.
Scale out for billions of IoT devices or scale up for HPC
Azure Blob Storage offers the volume required to enable storage for billions of data points coming in from IoT endpoints while also satisfying the rigorous, high-throughput needs of HPC applications.
Features
Scalable, robust, and accessible
With geo-replication and the capacity to scale as needed, the durability is designed to be sixteen nines.
Safe and sound
Role-based access control (RBAC), Microsoft Entra ID (previously Azure Active Directory) authentication, sophisticated threat protection, and encryption at rest.
Data lake-optimized
Multi-protocol access and file namespace facilitate analytics workloads for data insights.
Complete data administration
Immutable (WORM) storage, policy-based access control, and end-to-end lifecycle management.
Integrated security and conformance
Complete security and conformance, integrated
- Every year, Microsoft spends about $1 billion on cybersecurity research and development.
- Over 3,500 security professionals who are committed to data security and privacy work for it.
- Azure boasts one of the biggest portfolios of compliance certifications in the sector.
Azure Blob storage cost
Documents, films, images, backups, and other unstructured text or binary data can all be streamed and stored using block blob storage.
The most recent features are accessible through blob storage accounts, however they do not allow page blobs, files, queues, or tables. For the majority of users, general-purpose v2 storage accounts are advised.
Block blob storage’s overall cost is determined by:
- Monthly amount of data kept.
- Number and kinds of activities carried out, as well as any expenses related to data transfer.
- The option for data redundancy was chosen.
Adaptable costs with reserved alternatives to satisfy your needs for cloud storage
Depending on how frequently you anticipate accessing the data, you can select from its storage tiers. Keep regularly accessed data in Hot, seldom accessed data in Cool and Cold, performance-sensitive data in Premium, and rarely accessed data in Archive. Save a lot of money by setting up storage space.
To continue building with the same free features after your credit, switch to pay as you go. Only make a payment if your monthly usage exceeds your free amounts.
You will continue to receive over fifty-five services at no cost after a year, and you will only be charged for the services you utilize above your monthly allotment.
