Blob Storage

• Binary Large Objects (BLOB)
• Data is unstructured, does not follow data model
• Azure Blob Storage can store up to 190 Tebibytes
  • 1 TB = 1000 GB = 10^12 bytes
  • 1 TiB = 1024 GiB ~ 1.1 TB
• Content accessed by
  • HTTP
  • HTTPS
  • REST
• Types of Blob Storage
  • Block
  • Append
  • Page
• Performance Tiers
  • Hot
  • Cold
  • Archive

Azure File Storage

• Data is structured
• store up to 256 TiB
  • max file size = 4 TiB
• Content accessed by network share protocol
  • SMB (Server Message Block)
  • NFS (Network File System)
• Performance Tiers
  • HDD
  • SSD

Azure Disk Storage

• Used in Persistent storage for Azure VMs
• Use Azure Page Blob Storage internally
• Performance Tiers
  • HDD
  • SSD