Blob Storage
about 1 minuteStudents, Staff, IT staffchecked 17 August 2026
Recommended Learning Resources
Section titled “Recommended Learning Resources”- Learning videos at Microsoft Learn
- Learning path AZ-104: Implement and manage storage in Azure
- Learning path: Secure storage for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage
- more learning modules
Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that doesn’t adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data.
Features
Section titled “Features”- Access tiers (hot, cool, cold, and archive)
- Microsoft Entra security
- Azure DNS Zone endpoints (preview)
- Blob inventory
- Blob index tags
- Blob snapshots
- Blob Storage APIs
- Blob Storage Azure CLI commands
- Blob Storage events
- Blob Storage PowerShell commands
- Blob versioning
- Blobfuse
- Change feed
- Custom domains
- Customer-managed planned failover (preview)
- Customer-managed (unplanned) failover
- Customer-managed keys with key vault in the same tenant
- Customer-provided keys
- Data redundancy options
- Encryption scopes
- Immutable storage
- Last access time tracking for lifecycle management
- Lifecycle management policies (delete blob)
- Lifecycle management policies (tiering)
- Logging in Azure Monitor
- Metrics in Azure Monitor
- Object replication for block blobs
- Point-in-time restore for block blobs
- Prevent anonymous read access
- Soft delete for blobs
- Soft delete for containers
- Static websites
- Storage Analytics logs (classic)
- Storage Analytics metrics (classic)
Quickstart
Section titled “Quickstart”Quickstart guides for deploying and using Azure Blob Storage are available for the following tools:
Quickstart guides for deploying and using Azure Blob Storage are available for the following client libraries: