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