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Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage

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.

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Recent Reviews

Cloud storage solution

8 out of 10
January 27, 2023
Incentivized
Azure Blob Storage offers an S3-compatible API for storing files on the cloud. It is easy to use with good APIs and affordable.<br><br>It …
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Gets the job done

9 out of 10
March 26, 2022
Incentivized
Azure Blob Storage is equivalent to Amazon's S3, but better because it supports HTTPS. It lets us host files of any size and automatically …
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Pricing

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Block Blobs

$0.0081

Cloud
per GB/per month

Azure Data Lake Storage

$0.0081

Cloud
per GB/per month

Files

$0.058

Cloud
per GB/per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Details

What is Azure Blob Storage?

Azure Blob Storage Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Microsoft's Blob Storage system on Azure is designed to make unstructured data available to customers anywhere through REST-based object storage.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Azure Blob Storage are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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Reviews

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April 25, 2022

Azure Blob Storage - a cost-effective and sensible option

Verified User
Contributor in Other
Health, Wellness and Fitness Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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
April 01, 2022

Azure Blob Storage is cheap and effective for backups and audit logs

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
March 26, 2022

Robust, Scalable and Secure Storage

Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Financial Services Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
March 26, 2022

Gets the job done

Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology
Investment Management Company, 5001-10,000 employees
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
February 24, 2020

Azure Blob Storage and Panzura - A win for the civil engineering field

Verified User
Manager in Information Technology
Civil Engineering Company, 501-1000 employees
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
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