Blob storage
Massively-scalable object storage for unstructured data
With exabytes of capacity and massive scalability, Azure Blob storage easily and cost-effectively stores from hundreds to billions of objects, in hot or cool tiers depending on how frequently data access is needed. Store any type of unstructured data—images, videos, audio, documents, and more.
Scale up or down, hot or cool
Another day, another server, another rack? Not anymore. Azure Blob storage can handle ALL of your unstructured data, scaling up (or down) as your needs change. Plus, you no longer have to manage it, and you pay only for what you use, saving budget over on-premises storage options. You can choose hot or cool storage tiers too, depending on how frequently the data is accessed. Long-term back-up can be put in cool storage, while on-demand video lives in the hot storage tier.
Why choose Azure Blob storage?
All cloud object storage is not the same. Azure offers you:
Strong Consistency
When an object is changed, it’s verified everywhere for superior data integrity, ensuring you always have access to the latest version.
Object mutability
Gives you the flexibility to perform edits in-place, which can improve your application performance and reduce bandwidth consumption.
Multiple Blob types
Block, Page, and Append Blobs give you maximum flexibility to optimize your storage to your needs.
Easy-to-use geo-redundancy
Automatically configure geo-replication options in a single menu, to easily empower enhanced global/local access and business continuity.
One infrastructure, world-wide access
Make your unstructured data available to users anywhere through REST-based object storage. With more regions than any other cloud provider, it’s ideal for streaming and storing media, whether it’s live broadcast events like the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics or long-term archive of petabytes of movies and television shows. You can search for hidden insights in massive object storage too, through Big Data analytics, providing access to the right people at the right time, no matter where they are.
Any data, cloud scale
Store any type of unstructured data—images, videos, audio, documents, and more—with proven technology at exabyte-scale. Azure Blob storage handles trillions of stored objects with millions of average requests per second for customers all over the world.
“By having everything on the cloud in Azure, we can take a very data-intensive solution that is complex for customers to manage and turn it into an offering that they only need an Internet connection with a browser to access.”
Hans van Eijk, Global Product Strategy Director at CycloMedia
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