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Azure Blob Storage is a cloud service for storing unstructured binary data. It is a part of the Microsoft Azure family of cloud services. Blobs can be of any file type. azure blobs can be Block or Page oriented. Block blobs are optimized for sequential read, while Page blobs are optimized for random read. A single Block Blob can be up to 200 GB in size and a single Page blob - up to 2 TB.

from: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-introduction

Azure Blob storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that does not adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data.

About Blob storage Blob storage is designed for:

  • Serving images or documents directly to a browser.
  • Storing files for distributed access.
  • Streaming video and audio.
  • Writing to log files.
  • Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving.
  • Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.

Users or client applications can access objects in Blob storage via HTTP/HTTPS, from anywhere in the world. Objects in Blob storage are accessible via the Azure Storage REST API, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or an Azure Storage client library. Client libraries are available for a variety of languages, including .NET, Java, Node.js, Python, Go, PHP, and Ruby.

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Microsoft Azure: How to create sub directory in a blob container

How to create a sub directory in a blob container for example, in my blob container http://veda.blob.core.windows.net/document/ If I store some files it will…
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Checking if a blob exists in Azure Storage

I've got a very simple question (I hope!) - I just want to find out if a blob (with a name I've defined) exists in a particular container. I'll be downloading it if it does exist, and if it doesn't then I'll do something else. I've done some…
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Azure Blob Storage vs. File Service

Please correct my wrongs. From my reading on the topic so far, it appears to me that both, Azure Blob Storage and File Service offer the ability to store file(s) and folder(s) (I understand that blobs can store any binary object, but any serialized…
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Is it better to have many small Azure storage blob containers (each with some blobs) or one really large container with tons of blobs?

So the scenario is the following: I have a multiple instances of a web service that writes a blob of data to Azure Storage. I need to be able to group blobs into a container (or a virtual directory) depending on when it was received. Once in a while…
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Differences between Azure Block Blob and Page Blob?

As I recently started mingling around with Windows Azure, I've came up to a situation where, which one to go for between the Block Blob & Page Blob. I'm currently in progress of uploading some text, csv or dat files to a blob storage and then do a…
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Azure Blob Storage "Authorization Permission Mismatch" error for get request with AD token

I am building an Angular 6 application that will be able to make CRUD operation on Azure Blob Storage. I'm however using postman to test requests before implementing them inside the app and copy-pasting the token that I get from Angular for that…
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How to create a sub container in azure storage location

How can I create a sub container in the azure storage location?
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how to get blob-URL after file upload in azure

I'm trying to connect web and worker role. So i have a page where user can upload video files. Files are large so i can't use the query to send files. That's why i'm trying to upload them into the Blob Storage and then send the url by the query. But…
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How to delete a folder within an Azure blob container

I have a blob container in Azure called pictures that has various folders within it (see snapshot below): I'm trying to delete the folders titled users and uploads shown in the snapshot, but I keep the error: Failed to delete blob…
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Automatically Delete/Expire Azure Blobs after a time period

With Azure Blob storage is it possible to either have an individual blob or all blobs within a container delete themselves after a certain period of time similar to Amazon AWS S3's Object Expiration Feature? Or does Azure storage not provide such…
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"404 Resource Not Found" From Azure Blob Storage Document from PUT

During a PUT request, with the proper Authorization header, which creates a new BLOB, my process is getting a "404 Resource Not Found" error when I attempt to PUT a file into a…
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How do I upload some file into Azure blob storage without writing my own program?

I created an Azure Storage account. I have a 400 megabytes .zip file that I want to put into blob storage for later use. How can I do that without writing code? Is there some interface for that?
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What is the best way to backup Azure Blob Storage contents

I know that the Azure Storage entities (blobs, tables and queues) have a built-in resiliency, meaning that they are replicated to 3 different servers in the same datacenter. On top of that they may also be replicated to a different datacenter…
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How to clean an Azure storage Blob container?

I just want to clean (dump, zap, del .) an Azure Blob container. How can I do that? Note: The container is used by IIS (running Webrole) logs (wad-iis-logfiles).
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Getting list of names of Azure blob files in a container?

I need to list names of Azure Blob file names. Currently I m able to list all files with URL but I just need list of names. I want to avoid parsing names. Can you please see my below code and guide: CloudStorageAccount backupStorageAccount =…
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