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Microsoft Azure Blob Storage enables the secure, highly available storage of large unstructured binary data (BLOB = binary large object) in Microsoft Azure. A single blob can have a size of up to 1 terabyte. Content is automatically stored in triplicate.

Other available options are georeplication and the ability to cache blob content distributed worldwide via the content delivery network (see 6.2). Two types of blobs are available: block blobs and page blobs. The former are suitable for sequential data upload and download, while the latter provide random access to Blob sections.

Blobs are stored within containers. Access privileges can be assigned both at the container level and the Blob level. The relevant element can be declared as public (access possible without authentication) or private. Shared Access Signatures can be created to time-limit access to appropriately authorized users.

Getting Started

Azure Blob Storage 101 with Jai Haridas

4/30/2015, Video, 0:16:11

Scott talks to Program Manager Jai Haridas who school us all on Azure Blob Storage 101. We'll create a simple application that accesses Blog Storage and we'll even use Fiddler...
Azure Storage Performance, Scalability and Security

4/29/2015, Video, 0:56:44

Cloud, on premise, and mobile applications are all increasingly using cloud storage. Azure Storage is a cloud storage service which provides scalability, durability, and...
Blobs and Tables: New Azure-Consistent Storage for your Datacenter

5/19/2015, Video, 1:20:35

Are you planning to deploy and run modern, cloud-scale applications in your private cloud? Do you know that all VM storage in your private cloud will soon be blob...
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer

6/20/2016, Tool

Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (Preview) is a standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, OSX and Linux.
Data on Azure: The big picture

9/28/2017, Video, 1:12:13

Microsoft Azure provides a broad range of services for working with data. Using these services well requires knowing at least a little bit about all of them. In this session,...

Latest Content

Date	Title
10/18/2018	10/18/2018 Azure Blob Storage: Build secure scalable cloud applications - BRK3292 YT: Ignite [1:15:14] A durable, scalable, and secure data infrastructure is a key piece of building, scaling, and securing your existing applications. Azure Blob Storage provides the object storage platform to build...
10/9/2018	10/9/2018 Lessons in building a multi-exabyte data store: How Microsoft OneDrive leverages - BRK3382 YT: Ignite [0:45:06] Blob Storage is Azure’s exabyte scale object storage platform built for your most demanding data workloads. In this session, we’ll use a fireside chat and Q&A format to interactively learn about...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Serverless compute architectures with Azure Blob Storage - BRK3381 YT: Ignite [0:35:57] Serverless computing architectures are increasingly prevalent in the cloud for scale, flexibility, and cost efficiency. A core building block of these architectures is a data persistence and...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Design patterns and best practices for using Azure Blob Storage - BRK3373 [1:17:22] Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's exabyte scale object storage platform built for the most demanding applications and workloads. In this session, we'll cover some design patterns and best...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Azure Blob Storage: Build secure scalable cloud applications - BRK3292 YT: Ignite [1:15:15] A durable, scalable, and secure data infrastructure is a key piece of building, scaling, and securing your existing applications. Azure Blob Storage provides the object storage platform to build...
10/2/2018	10/2/2018 Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2: Enhancing big data analytics on Azure - BRK3326 YT: Ignite [1:02:54] Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen 2 is a single data lake store that combines the performance and innovation of ADLS with the scale and rich feature set of Azure Blob Storage. It provides a...
9/24/2018	9/24/2018 Introducing Azure Premium Blob Storage (limited public preview) Microsoft Azure Blog Today we are excited to announce the limited public preview of Azure Premium Blob Storage, which introduces a new performance tier in Azure Blob Storage, complimenting the existing Hot, Cool, and...
9/6/2018	9/6/2018 Windows IoT #5: Using Device Methods with IoT Hub (Getting Started Series) Ch9: VS Toolbox [0:22:00] In the fifth episode of this series, Dmitry and Suz continue covering Windows IoT Core fundamentals using a custom built smart IoT device prototype. This time they'll be walking through using...
9/6/2018	9/6/2018 Windows IoT #5: Using Device Methods with IoT Hub (Getting Started Series) [0:14:17] In the fifth episode of this series, Dmitry and Suz continue covering Windows IoT Core fundamentals using a custom built smart IoT device prototype. This time they'll be walking through using...
8/30/2018	8/30/2018 Configuring node.js application on Azure App Service with Azure Blob Storage In this article, we will learn about configuring the node js applications deployed on Azure App Services with the Azure blob storage. If you would like to store the application logs in a blob...
8/23/2018	8/23/2018 Sketch2Code [0:13:09] The Need- User Interface Design process involves a lot a creativity that starts on a whiteboard where designers share ideas. Once a design is drawn, it is usually captured within a photograph and...
8/23/2018	8/23/2018 Sketch2Code [0:02:42] The Need- User Interface Design process involves a lot a creativity that starts on a whiteboard where designers share ideas. Once a design is drawn, it is usually captured within a photograph and...

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Web Content

Blob Storage Documentation

1. Overview
     1.1. Introduction
     1.2. Choose Blobs, Files, or Data Disks
2. Quickstarts
     2.1. Create a storage account
     2.2. Work with blobs - Azure portal
     2.3. Work with blobs - Storage Explorer
     2.4. Work with blobs - PowerShell
     2.5. Work with blobs - CLI
     2.6. Work with blobs - .NET
     2.7. Work with blobs - Java (Storage SDK V10)
     2.8. Work with blobs - Java (Storage SDK V7)
     2.9. Work with blobs - Python
     2.10. Work with blobs - Go
     2.11. Work with blobs - Ruby
     2.12. Work with blobs - Node.js (Storage SDK v10)
     2.13. Work with blobs - Node.js (Storage SDK v2)
     2.14. Work with blobs - JS/HTML
     2.15. Work with blobs - PHP
3. Tutorials
     3.1. Upload and process an image
          3.1.1. 1 - Upload and retrieve image data in the cloud
          3.1.2. 2 - Trigger Azure Functions to process blobs
          3.1.3. 3 - Secure application data
          3.1.4. 4 - Monitor and troubleshoot storage
     3.2. Design for high availability in cloud storage
          3.2.1. 1 - Make your application highly available
          3.2.2. 2 - Simulate a failure with RA-GRS storage
     3.3. Migrate on-premises data to cloud with AzCopy
     3.4. Search unstructured data in cloud storage
     3.5. Optimize storage application performance and scalability
          3.5.1. 1 - Create a VM and storage account
          3.5.2. 2 - Upload large data to an Azure storage account
          3.5.3. 3- Download large data from a Azure storage account
          3.5.4. 4 - Verify throughput and latency metrics
4. Samples
     4.1. .NET
     4.2. Java
     4.3. Azure PowerShell
     4.4. Azure CLI
5. Concepts
     5.1. Storage accounts
          5.1.1. Manage a storage account
          5.1.2. Upgrade a storage account
     5.2. Authorization
          5.2.1. Authenticate with Azure AD
               5.2.1.1. Manage access rights with RBAC
               5.2.1.2. Authenticate from an application
               5.2.1.3. Authenticate with managed identities
               5.2.1.4. Use an Azure AD identity with CLI or PowerShell
          5.2.2. Authorize with Shared Key
          5.2.3. Authorize with SAS
          5.2.4. Anonymous access to blobs
     5.3. Data redundancy
          5.3.1. Locally-redundant storage
          5.3.2. Zone-redundant storage
          5.3.3. Geo-redundant storage
     5.4. Access tiers
     5.5. Managing the Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle
     5.6. Reacting to events
     5.7. Scalability and performance targets
     5.8. Performance and scalability checklist
     5.9. Concurrency
     5.10. Disaster recovery guidance
     5.11. Move data to and from Storage
     5.12. Page blob features
     5.13. Azure Disks
          5.13.1. Premium Storage
               5.13.1.1. Linux
                    5.13.1.1.1. High-performance Premium Storage for VM Disks
                    5.13.1.1.2. Migrating to Premium Storage using Azure Site Recovery
                    5.13.1.1.3. Design for high performance
               5.13.1.2. Windows
                    5.13.1.2.1. High-performance Premium Storage for VM Disks
                    5.13.1.2.2. Migrating to Premium Storage using Azure Site Recovery
                    5.13.1.2.3. Design for high performance
          5.13.2. Standard Storage
               5.13.2.1. Linux
                    5.13.2.1.1. Standard Storage for VM Disks
               5.13.2.2. Windows
                    5.13.2.2.1. Standard Storage for VM Disks
          5.13.3. Troubleshoot attached VHDs
               5.13.3.1. Linux
                    5.13.3.1.1. Storage resource deletion errors
                    5.13.3.1.2. Unexpected reboots of VMs with attached VHDs
               5.13.3.2. Windows
                    5.13.3.2.1. Storage resource deletion errors
                    5.13.3.2.2. Unexpected reboots of VMs with attached VHDs
     5.14. Secure
          5.14.1. Security guide
          5.14.2. Configure firewalls and virtual networks
          5.14.3. Encryption for data at rest
          5.14.4. Encryption at rest with customer keys
          5.14.5. Require secure transfer
          5.14.6. Using the Azure CDN to access blobs with custom domains over HTTPs
          5.14.7. Immutable blobs
          5.14.8. Advanced Threat Protection (preview)
          5.14.9. Enable secure TLS for Azure Storage client
          5.14.10. Compliance offerings
     5.15. Monitor and troubleshoot
          5.15.1. Troubleshooting tutorial
          5.15.2. Monitor, diagnose, and troubleshoot
          5.15.3. Metrics and logging
               5.15.3.1. Metrics in Azure Monitor
               5.15.3.2. Migrate to new metrics
               5.15.3.3. Storage Analytics
               5.15.3.4. Enable and view metrics (classic)
     5.16. Import/Export data
          5.16.1. Review requirements
          5.16.2. Import data to blobs
          5.16.3. Import data to files
          5.16.4. Export data from blobs
          5.16.5. How-to
               5.16.5.1. View drive status
               5.16.5.2. Review job status
               5.16.5.3. Repair import job
               5.16.5.4. Repair export job
          5.16.6. FAQ
          5.16.7. REST API
          5.16.8. Contact Support
          5.16.9. Archive
               5.16.9.1. Prepare drives for import (v1)
                    5.16.9.1.1. Set properties & metadata
                    5.16.9.1.2. Sample - Prepare drives for import
                    5.16.9.1.3. Quick command reference for import
               5.16.9.2. Prepare drives for import (v2)
                    5.16.9.2.1. Set properties & metadata
                    5.16.9.2.2. Sample - Prepare drives for import
                    5.16.9.2.3. Quick command reference for import
               5.16.9.3. Create import job
               5.16.9.4. Create export job
               5.16.9.5. Get job state
               5.16.9.6. Create export job
               5.16.9.7. Enumerate jobs
               5.16.9.8. Cancel & delete job
               5.16.9.9. Back up drive manifest
               5.16.9.10. Enumerate jobs
               5.16.9.11. Diagnostics & error recovery
               5.16.9.12. Commands for import jobs
               5.16.9.13. Service manifest file
               5.16.9.14. Service metadata and properties file
               5.16.9.15. Service log file
6. How to
     6.1. Develop
          6.1.1. REST
          6.1.2. C++
          6.1.3. iOS
          6.1.4. Xamarin
     6.2. Manage
          6.2.1. PowerShell for Azure Storage
          6.2.2. PowerShell for China, Government, and German clouds
          6.2.3. Azure CLI
          6.2.4. Azure classic CLI
          6.2.5. Manage blobs with Storage Explorer
          6.2.6. Azure Automation
     6.3. Client-side encryption
          6.3.1. .NET
          6.3.2. Java
          6.3.3. Python
     6.4. Configure connection strings
     6.5. Designing HA Apps using RA-GRS
     6.6. Encrypt and decrypt blobs using Azure Key Vault
     6.7. Set and retrieve properties and metadata
     6.8. Use the Storage Emulator
     6.9. Route events to a custom endpoint
     6.10. Recover deleted blobs
     6.11. Configure a custom domain
     6.12. Search Blob storage with Azure Search
     6.13. Host a static website
     6.14. Transfer data
          6.14.1. AzCopy (v10)
          6.14.2. AzCopy on Windows (v8)
          6.14.3. AzCopy on Linux (v8)
          6.14.4. Mount Blob storage as a file system on Linux
          6.14.5. Storage migration FAQ
7. Reference
     7.1. PowerShell
     7.2. Azure CLI
     7.3. .NET
          7.3.1. Blobs, Queues, Tables, and Files
          7.3.2. Data movement
          7.3.3. Resource Manager
     7.4. Java
          7.4.1. Blobs, Queues, Tables, and Files (v7)
          7.4.2. Blob SDK (v10)
     7.5. Node.js
     7.6. Ruby
     7.7. PHP
     7.8. Python
     7.9. C++
     7.10. iOS
     7.11. Android
     7.12. REST
          7.12.1. Blobs, Queues, Tables, and Files
          7.12.2. Resource provider
          7.12.3. Import/Export
8. Resources
     8.1. Azure Roadmap
     8.2. Azure Storage client tools
     8.3. Forum
     8.4. Pricing
     8.5. Pricing calculator
     8.6. Service updates
     8.7. Stack Overflow
     8.8. Videos
     8.9. Azure Storage Explorer
          8.9.1. Storage Explorer
          8.9.2. Storage Explorer release notes
          8.9.3. Troubleshoot Storage Explorer
          8.9.4. Storage Explorer accessibility
     8.10. NuGet packages
          8.10.1. Azure Storage Client Library for .NET
          8.10.2. Azure Storage Data Movement Library
          8.10.3. Azure Configuration Manager
     8.11. Source code
          8.11.1. .NET
               8.11.1.1. Blob, queue, table, and file
               8.11.1.2. Data movement
               8.11.1.3. Resource provider
          8.11.2. Node.js
          8.11.3. Java
          8.11.4. C++
          8.11.5. PHP
          8.11.6. Python
          8.11.7. Ruby
          8.11.8. iOS

Web Pages

Content	Type
Rethinking Enterprise Storage: A Hybrid Cloud Model	Ebook
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer	Website
Building Cloud Apps with Microsoft Azure	Ebook
Protecting Data in Microsoft Azure	Whitepaper

Online Training Content

Date	Title
11/16/2017	Understanding and Using Azure Storage Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your organization spends. This course, Understanding and Using Azure Storage, is the vehicle to get you there. First, you'll get an introduction to storage fundamentals and a...
11/16/2017	Planning and Designing Microsoft Azure Storage Solutions Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your organization spends. This course, Understanding and Using Azure Storage, is the vehicle to get you there. First, you'll get an introduction to storage fundamentals and a...
2/25/2017	Microsoft Azure for IT Pros Content Series: Storage If you’re an IT Pro interested in Microsoft Azure Storage, be sure to join MVP Corey Hynes for the fifth in a series of Azure for IT Pros courses. Learn what Azure Storage is, how we think about it, and how we plan it—whether running virtual machines, storing data, or supporting different applications. Explore the basics of how Azure Storage works,...
1/16/2017	Azure Developer Workshop (Storage, Cognitive, ML, Stream Analytics, Containers, and Docker) Looking for a practical, hands-on introduction to Microsoft Azure for developers? This is your course! Watch expert hosts Susan Ibach, of Microsoft, and Jeff Prosise, from Wintellect, and get the details you need on Azure Storage, Azure Stream Analytics, Cognitive Services, Machine Learning, containers, Docker, and much more. Get an introduction to...
2/16/2016	Data Storage and Processing in the Cloud Demystified If you’d like insight into data storage and processing in the cloud, be sure to check out this helpful cloud training course. Get a look at the Microsoft storage strategy, starting with on-premises storage and the company's investments in server storage. Explore hybrid cloud storage, and then dive i
3/7/2015	Microsoft Azure Fundamentals: Storage and Data Continuing your journey to the cloud with the Microsoft Azure Fundamentals series? Join the ever-popular Bob Tabor of LearnVisualStudio.net, in the third installment, as he explores cloud storage and data, specifically the various ways you can store structured, semi-structured, and schema-free data
2/13/2014	Windows Azure Storage - Design and Implementation Jump Start See the broad capabilities of Windows Azure, some storage design patterns and best practice techniques, and then a variety of tips and tricks so you can get started today.Instructor \| Andrew Edwards – Microsoft Principal SDE; Jai Haridas – Microsoft Principal Development Manager
2/13/2014	Windows Azure Storage - Design and Implementation Jump Start See the broad capabilities of Windows Azure, some storage design patterns and best practice techniques, and then a variety of tips and tricks so you can get started today.

Tools

Tool	Description	Author
Managing Blobs within an AzureRm Storage Account	Download all the Blobs from AzureRm Storage account for a specific date. You need to enter the date in "dd-mm-yyyy" format.The script is build on a Taxonomy.Storage account ->Contains Storage container -> Blob( Page Blob and Block Blob)	Clavin Fernandes
Azure Speed Tests	Webpage for testing various Azure services including Azure Storage, CDN, etc.
Azure Speed Test	Tool for testing latency of Blob Storage access. Results are shown for all Azure datacenters with a message indicating the nearest datacenter from user's current location.	Two10degrees
CloudXplorer	A rich UI client for browsing Azure Blobs & Files.	ClumsyLeaf
Cloud Combine	Cloud Combine is IDE for cloud services that works in a way you expect. It supports Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS and Google Cloud as well as golden classics such as FTP.	Gapotchenko
Azure Management Studio	One tool to manage your Microsoft Azure cloud storage, diagnostics data and application workflows.	Cerebrata
Azure Feature Pack for Integration Services (SSIS)	SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Feature Pack for Azure for SQL Server 2016 is an extension that provides the following components for SSIS to connect to Azure, transfer data between Azure and on-premises data sources, and process data stored in Azure.	Microsoft
Azure Explorer	A free storage tool for Microsoft Azure Storage. Among other features, it lets you manage all your Microsoft Azure blobs in one place, reliably upload and download blobs with a responsive UI, transfer blobs between your storage accounts, easily search and filter your blobs.	Red Gate Software Ltd.
Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer	Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (Preview) is a standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, OSX and Linux.	Microsoft
AzCopy	AzCopy is a Windows command-line utility designed for copying data to and from Microsoft Azure Blob, File, and Table storage using simple commands with optimal performance. You can copy data from one object to another within your storage account, or between storage accounts.	Microsoft
AdlCopy	Tool zum Kopieren von Daten zwischen Azure Blob Storage und Azure Data Lake Store	Microsoft

Videos

Date	Title	Length
10/18/2018	Azure Blob Storage: Build secure scalable cloud applications - BRK3292 YT: Ignite A durable, scalable, and secure data infrastructure is a key piece of building, scaling, and securing your existing applications. Azure Blob Storage provides the object storage platform to build data intensive applications in the...	1:15:14
10/9/2018	Lessons in building a multi-exabyte data store: How Microsoft OneDrive leverages - BRK3382 YT: Ignite Blob Storage is Azure’s exabyte scale object storage platform built for your most demanding data workloads. In this session, we’ll use a fireside chat and Q&A format to interactively learn about how Azure powers the multi-exabyte...	0:45:06
10/2/2018	Serverless compute architectures with Azure Blob Storage - BRK3381 YT: Ignite Serverless computing architectures are increasingly prevalent in the cloud for scale, flexibility, and cost efficiency. A core building block of these architectures is a data persistence and messaging layer. In Azure, Blob Storage...	0:35:57
10/2/2018	Design patterns and best practices for using Azure Blob Storage - BRK3373 Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's exabyte scale object storage platform built for the most demanding applications and workloads. In this session, we'll cover some design patterns and best practices for building high performance,...	1:17:22
10/2/2018	Azure Blob Storage: Build secure scalable cloud applications - BRK3292 YT: Ignite A durable, scalable, and secure data infrastructure is a key piece of building, scaling, and securing your existing applications. Azure Blob Storage provides the object storage platform to build data intensive applications in the...	1:15:15
10/2/2018	Azure Data Lake Storage Gen 2: Enhancing big data analytics on Azure - BRK3326 YT: Ignite Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS) Gen 2 is a single data lake store that combines the performance and innovation of ADLS with the scale and rich feature set of Azure Blob Storage. It provides a Hadoop compatible file system interface for...	1:02:54
9/6/2018	Windows IoT #5: Using Device Methods with IoT Hub (Getting Started Series) Ch9: VS Toolbox In the fifth episode of this series, Dmitry and Suz continue covering Windows IoT Core fundamentals using a custom built smart IoT device prototype. This time they'll be walking through using Azure IoT Hub's Device Methods to control...	0:22:00
9/6/2018	Windows IoT #5: Using Device Methods with IoT Hub (Getting Started Series) In the fifth episode of this series, Dmitry and Suz continue covering Windows IoT Core fundamentals using a custom built smart IoT device prototype. This time they'll be walking through using Azure IoT Hub's Device Methods to control...	0:14:17
8/23/2018	Sketch2Code The Need- User Interface Design process involves a lot a creativity that starts on a whiteboard where designers share ideas. Once a design is drawn, it is usually captured within a photograph and manually translated into some working...	0:13:09
8/23/2018	Sketch2Code The Need- User Interface Design process involves a lot a creativity that starts on a whiteboard where designers share ideas. Once a design is drawn, it is usually captured within a photograph and manually translated into some working...	0:02:42

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