Benefits of Azure Blob Storage
Some benefits of Azure blob storage are mentioned below:
- Scalability: Azure blob storage provides high scalability, allowing to store and manage a maximum up to 200GB of data, which can be easily scaled up and down to meet your changing demands.
- Durability and Data Redundancy: Azure Blob Storage always stores multiple copies of your data so that it’s protected from any uncertain events, including any hardware failures, outages, and massive natural disasters. Data Redundancy features ensure that data is always available and protected through multiple redundancy options such as Zone Redundant Storage (ZRS), and Local Redundant Storage (LRS).
- Security: Azure Blob Storage provides security features, including encryption at rest and in transit. Azure Blob Storage along with Azure Active Directory(Azure AD) helps in authorizing requests to blob data. This allows to give permission-based access to users, groups, or any application service principals.
- Access Tiers: You can choose from different access tiers based on your data’s access patterns such as how frequently or infrequently you will need the data and cost considerations. These different access tiers are classified as Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive each with different characteristics and pricing models.
- Lifecycle Management: This helps to set up policies to move or delete the data as per requirement. For example, it can help to move the data from frequent access to infrequent access let say after five years when the access of data will get lower for our use.
- Integration: Azure Blob Storage allows to integrate with other Azure services and tools, such as Azure Data Factory and Azure Functions.
Azure Blob Storage
In today’s world where everything revolves around data, managing and storing vast amounts of data is the priority of every business operation. Azure Blob Storage, is one of the services offered by Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing platform, which is a scalable and cost-effective solution for storing and managing unstructured data, such as images, videos, documents, files, and backups.