Azure Blob Storage documentation

Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data.

About Blob storage

Overview

• What is Azure Blob Storage?

Architecture

Architecture

• Azure Well-Architected Framework considerations

Get started

Quickstart

• Upload, download, and list blobs - portal
• Use Storage Explorer to manage blobs

Concept

• Storage account overview
• Data redundancy

How-To Guide

• Create a storage account
• Create a block blob storage account
• Configure a custom domain

Analytics and insights

Overview

• Azure Data Lake Storage

Quickstart

• Analyze data with Databricks

Concept

• Processing big data
• Multi-protocol access
• Best practices

Tutorial

• Extract, transform, and load data with Azure Databricks
• Extract, transform, load data with Apache Hive on Azure HDInsight
• Insert data into Databricks tables by using Event Grid

How-To Guide

• Use with Azure HDInsight clusters
• Use with Power BI

Search and understand blob data

Concept

• Use AI to understand blob data
• Search your blob content

Develop applications

Quickstart

• Azure Blob Storage for .NET
• Azure Blob Storage for Java SE
• Azure Blob Storage for Spring Boot
• Azure Blob Storage for Quarkus
• Azure Blob Storage for Python
• Azure Blob Storage for JavaScript using Node.js
• Azure Blob Storage for JavaScript in a browser
• Route events to a web endpoint
• Host a static website

Concept

• Handle events
• Static websites

Tutorial

• Create a web app to upload image data

Manage security and identity

Concept

• Authorize access to Azure Storage
• Data Lake access control

How-To Guide

• Access blob data with Microsoft Entra account
• Manage access rights with Azure RBAC

Transfer data

Concept

• Compare data transfer solutions
• Tape migration overview
• Use Azure Data Box for offline transfer

How-To Guide

• Transfer with AzCopy
• Access Azure blob data on Linux with BlobFuse2
• Transfer with Azure Data Factory

Performance and scalability

Concept

• Scalability and performance
• Performance and scalability checklist

Tutorial

• Optimize for performance and scalability

Back up and archive data

Concept

• Hot, cool, and archive storage
• Manage the Blob storage lifecycle

Manage costs

Concept

• Plan and manage costs
• Estimate costs
• Sample estimate: Move data out of archive
• Sample estimate: Retrieve from archive
• Sample estimate: Cross region data access