What do you need to know about Blob Storage?
Microsoft recommends that you always require secure transfer for all of your storage accounts. For more information, see Require secure transfer to ensure secure connections. Requiring HTTPS when a client uses a SAS token to access blob data helps to minimize the risk of eavesdropping.
How are blobs stored in Azure Resource Manager?
For more information, see Apply an Azure Resource Manager lock to a storage account. Configure legal holds and time-based retention policies to store blob data in a WORM (Write Once, Read Many) state. Blobs stored immutably can be read, but cannot be modified or deleted for the duration of the retention interval.
Are there any security risks with cloud storage?
Files in the cloud are among the most susceptible to being hacked without security measures in place. The fact that they are stored and transmitted over the internet is also a major risk factor. And even if the cloud service provides encryption for files, data can still be intercepted on route to its destination.
How does Microsoft identify malware and potentially unwanted software?
Microsoft helps protect you from potential threats by identifying and analyzing software and online content. When you download, install, and run software, we check the reputation of downloaded programs and ensure you’re protected against known threats. You are also warned about software that is unknown to us.
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. About Blob storage. Blob storage is designed for:
How are objects stored in Blob Storage in azure?
Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service. Users or client applications can access objects in Blob storage via HTTP/HTTPS, from anywhere in the world. Objects in Blob storage are accessible via the Azure Storage REST API, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or an Azure Storage client library.
Can a blob be copied to multiple storage accounts?
Alternatively, you can temporarily copy the blob to multiple storage accounts to increase the total IOPS per blob and across storage accounts. Results will vary depending on your application’s behavior, so be sure to test concurrency patterns during design.
How many requests per second can a single blob support?
A single blob supports up to 500 requests per second. If you have multiple clients that need to read the same blob and you might exceed this limit, then consider using a block blob storage account. A block blob storage account provides a higher request rate, or I/O operations per second (IOPS).