Microsoft’s Azure Blob Storage is a full service object storage provider from a name that everyone who computes knows and can trust with the most critical of applications.
Microsoft’s Azure Blob Storage (opens in new tab) is a full service object storage provider from a name that everyone who computes knows and can trust with the most critical of applications. The upper echelon of cloud storage providers (opens in new tab) is a pretty exclusive group, and with the Microsoft offering, Azure takes the pole position in second place behind Amazon Web Services. This should hardly come as a surprise, with the folks in Redmond investing a staggering $1 billion annually for cybersecurity (opens in new tab) research and development. There is also further commitment to data security and privacy as Microsoft employs in excess of 3,500 security experts, and states impressively that it has “More certifications than any other cloud provider.”
While Microsoft Azure is a full service cloud storage provider, within this is the Azure Blob Storage, which is for secure object storage. Microsoft Azure endeavors to be rather transparent about its pricing. However, like some other providers in the space, the pricing can get complicated given the numerous options with nuanced features for the less than veteran purchaser in the space. Microsoft indicates that its ‘Block blob storage’ has pricing based on a number of variables. These include the monthly volume of data stored, the level of data redundancy, and the quantity and operation types performed on the data, along with data transfer costs. For an example, data stored with the Hierarchical Namespace protocol (NFS v3.0 protocol), with LRS which is locally redundant storage with synchronous data copied three times in a single physical location in the primary region, in the East US server location has a cost of $0.15 per gigabyte of premium storage, which has a low and consistent latency.
