Overview
What is Azure Blob Storage?
Microsoft's Blob Storage system on Azure is designed to make unstructured data available to customers anywhere through REST-based object storage.
Azure Blob Storage - a cost-effective and sensible option
Azure Blob Storage is cheap and effective for backups and audit logs
Robust, Scalable and Secure Storage
Gets the job done
Azure Blob Storage and Panzura - A win for the civil engineering field
Ease of use and efficiency makes Azure Blob a win!
Azure Blob Storage - It's worth using in your environment
Azure Blob storage is currently used in various ways at our company.
First, like cloud storage for various Azure SaaS platforms. Things …
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Pricing
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$0.0081
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$0.0081
Files
$0.058
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- No setup fee
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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What is Azure Blob Storage?
Azure Blob Storage Technical Details
Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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Operating Systems | Unspecified |
Mobile Application | No |
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Reviews
(1-8 of 8)Cloud storage solution
- AWS S3-compatible API
- Easy to use
- Cost-effective
- Secure
- Web UI can be somewhat clunky
Using in conjunction with Azure CDN for faster delivery of content
Usage as storage for cloud-native applications (e.g. storage of uploaded user content)
- Easy to work with - drag and drop
- Capable of long term retention
- Relatively low cost
- Good for different data formats
- Allows archival storage
- UI needs improvement
- Search for files can be slow
- Additional details in documentation would be nice
- We can backup directly from Azure VMs running SQL Server, no copying around.
- We can store SQL Audit logs directly in Azure Storage, no copying around.
- So far we haven't run into anything that's a problem for us or that we'd do differently.
Robust, Scalable and Secure Storage
- Ease of use both through Azure Portal as well as API.
- Cost-effective solution for storing a large amount of data compared to other storage solutions.
- Scalability, Security, and Performance are the other key aspects of Azure Blob Storage that are easily manageable through Admin Console.
- If we are transferring huge amount of data (outbound), it can get quite expensive.
- With new features being added constantly, although a good thing, at times it becomes difficult to keep up with the changes. Documentation needs to keep UpToDate and should include best practices.
- Performance can be improved especially when it comes to cold storage.
Gets the job done
- Flexible access control with Shared Access Signatures.
- Encryption of files.
- Serving files encrypted in transit (HTTPS).
- Would be nice if it offered an S3 API for easier portability.
- Would be nice if it was cheaper.
- Reduced cost. We were able to reduce our storage infrastructure by several hundred terabytes by consolidating redundant copies and dedupe/compression on files.
- Extremely high level of redundancy. We can replicate data in a variety of ways that we would never have been capable of on our own hardware.
- Unstructured data makes it harder to conceptualize what we have but with partners like Panzura that has been a non-issue for us.
- Not always easy to understand the different models or tiers you can pick from when purchasing.
Ease of use and efficiency makes Azure Blob a win!
- Ease of use.
- Efficient in data ingestion.
- Documentation for Powershell v10.
- File transfer size starting larger than 4mb.
Azure Blob Storage - It's worth using in your environment
Azure Blob storage is currently used in various ways at our company.
First, like cloud storage for various Azure SaaS platforms. Things like managed SQL instances and data lake storage for Azure AI / ML. It is useful in that it is tiered, so you can use hot tier for these use cases.
Secondly, a more common use is to use the cold and archive tiers as a cheap location to store long-term backups and archives. We think of it as a replacement for tape offloading in our DR strategy. One thing to be away from is that the cost to bring those backups/archives back from the cloud can be very high. So this is used more as a place of last resort for disaster recovery currently, but it definitely has its place.
- Tiering - Hot/Cold/Archive.
- It allows you to pay for the performance you need for the task at hand.
- Easily consumed and accessed.
- Expensive to egress your data, especially in a true DR scenario from cold or archive tier.
Well suited for newly developed micro applications that need to access data in the cloud.
Well suited for being the storage layer for SaaS offerings within the Azure Service Catalog. The integration is usually built-in.
Well suited for backup storage target for long-term RPO objectives, when the expectation of actual retrieval need is very low.
Well suited for long-term offsite archival storage.
Well suited for emergency storage needs (burst storage) for an immediate need.
Not appropriate for data that has high amounts of ingress and egress churn.
Not appropriate for applications that require ultra-low latency response time from the storage layer.