We call a managed disk managed because it is an abstraction over page blobs blob containers and azure storage.
Azure object storage.
The combination of the account name and the azure storage blob endpoint forms the base address for the objects in your storage account.
Blob storage rest based object storage for unstructured data data box appliances and solutions for data transfer to azure and edge compute archive storage industry leading price point for storing rarely accessed data.
Blob storage is designed for.
Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data.
Object replication asynchronously copies block blobs between a source storage account and a destination account.
Azure blob storage is microsoft s object storage solution for the cloud.
Azure managed disks are stored as page blobs which are a random io storage object in azure.
Azure data lake storage gen2 access control list recursive update in public preview.
Every object that you store in azure storage has an address that includes your unique account name.
Azcopy v10 6 released with updated sync features and larger blob size support.
Use object replication to minimize latency on read requests to increase efficiency for compute workloads to optimize data distribution and to minimize costs.
A storage account provides a unique namespace in azure for your data.
You can think of it like a physical disk in an on premises server but virtualized.
Choose to allow or disallow blob public access on azure storage accounts.