Much of what developers do with storage is focused on working with unstructured binary data. Azure’s blob storage is one way of handling this without the overhead of a file system.

This article throws light on storage in Azure & the four forms of storage - Blob storage, Queue storage, Table storage, Azure drive.

We look at the object storage services of the big three cloud providers – Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob and Google Cloud Storage – and how customers can achieve compatibility between them.

Think Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake, but also tools like Azure Active Directory.