Azure Blob Storage
Massively scalable and secure object storage for cloud-native workloads, archives, data lakes, high-performance computing, and machine learning.
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- Subscription
- Proprietary
Application type
Platforms
- Online
- Microsoft Azure
Features
- Object storage
Tags
- data-archive
- data-backup
- data-archiving
- azure-blob-storage
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What is Azure Blob Storage?
Azure Blob Storage is part of 
Azure Storage
Blob Storage helps you create data lakes for your analytics needs, and provides storage to build powerful cloud-native and mobile apps. Optimize costs with tiered storage for your long-term data, and flexibly scale up for high-performance computing and machine learning workloads.
Azure Blob Storage is designed for:
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Serving images or documents directly to a browser.
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Storing files for distributed access.
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Streaming video and audio.
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Writing to log files.
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Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving.
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Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.
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Build powerful cloud-native applications Blob storage is built from the ground up to support the scale, security, and availability needs of mobile, web, and cloud-native application developers. Use it as a cornerstone for serverless architectures such as Azure Functions. Blob storage supports the most popular development frameworks, including Java, .NET, Python, and Node.js, and is the only cloud storage service that offers a premium, SSD-based object storage tier for low-latency and interactive scenarios.