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Windows Azure Blob

Modified: 2010/09/15 13:19 by nick.hauenstein - Categorized as: Azure Services Platform, Windows Azure
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Windows Azure Blob is a data abstraction handled by Windows Azure Storage.

Blobs are unstructured binary data stored in the cloud. They can be up to 50 GB in size, and in the case of blobs larger than 64 MB, they are uploaded in blocks (not necessarily in order) up to 4 MB in size. All Blobs are downloaded as full blobs, regardless of size.

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Key Terminology

  • Account - Accounts are the highest level of namespace for accessing blobs.

  • Container - An account can have many blob containers. Containers act like folders do on a regular hard disk. Sharing policies are set at the container level.

  • Blob - Blobs are stored in containers. Each blob has a unique string name within the container. They can have up to 8KB of metadata (per container) associated with them in the form of key/value pairs.

The URI for a specific blob is structured as follows: http://account.blob.core.windows.net/container/blobname



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