Last updated on March 20, 2023
Blob Storage |
Disk Storage |
File Storage |
|
Type of storage |
Object storage to store all types of data formats. |
Block storage for virtual machines. |
File system across multiple machines. |
Max Storage Size |
Same as maximum storage account capacity |
65,536 GiB for ultra disk 32,767 GiB for standard and premium drives |
Scale up to 100 TiB |
Max File Size |
190.7 TiB for block blob 195 GiB for append blob 8 TiB for page blob |
Equivalent to the maximum size of your volumes |
4 TiB for a single file |
Performance (Throughput) |
500 requests per second for a single blob |
Up to 2000 MBps per disk. |
6,204 MiB/s for egress 4,136 MiB/s for ingress |
Data Accessing |
Objects can be accessed via HTTP/HTTPs. |
A single virtual machine in a single AZ. |
Share your files either on-premises or in the cloud. |
Encryption Methods |
Encrypt your data using Azure SSE (256-bit AES) |
SSE by storage service and ADE for OS and data disks. |
Encrypt your data using Azure SSE (256-bit AES) |
Backup and Restoration |
Versioning, snapshots and object replication |
You can back up your managed disks at any point in time using snapshots. |
Uses file share snapshots |
Pricing |
You are billed based on the stored data per month, operations performed, data transfer, and redundancy. |
You pay for the disk size, snapshots, and number of transactions. |
You pay for the provisioned GiB per month and the number of servers connected to the cloud endpoint. |
Use Cases |
Static website, media and log files, backups, analytics workloads |
Boot volumes and transaction-intensive workloads |
Central location of your files, monitoring logs and applications |
Azure Blob vs Disk vs File Storage Resources:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-introduction
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview
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