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BLOB Storage In Azure
What Is A BLOB?
How To Create A BLOB?
- Create a storage account
- Inside the storage account, create a container
- Inside the container, upload the blob
Steps
- Go to the "Storage Accounts" and click on the "+ Add" button
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- In the details screen, enter the details as mentioned in the figure below
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- Click on the "Review + create" button
- Once the validation is passed, the "Create" button will appear. Click on the button to create the storage account
- Once the storage account is created, click on the "Containers" button in the "Overview" section
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- In the next screen, click on the "+ Container" button to create the container
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- A screen will appear where you can enter the "Name" and the "Public access level"
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- Click on the "Create" button to create the container
- Inside the container, you have an option to upload the data
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Different Types Of BLOB
- Block blobs - These are used to store text and binary data
- Append blobs - These are used for logging data
- Page blobs - These are used to store virtual hard disk files for virtual machines