azure-blob-storage
Is it better to have many small Azure storage blob containers (each with some blobs) or one really large container with tons of blobs?
Everyone has given you excellent answers around accessing blobs directly. However, if you need to list blobs in a container, you will likely see better performance with the many-container model. I just talked with a company who’s been storing a massive number of blobs in a single container. They frequently list the objects in the … Read more
Microsoft Azure: How to create sub directory in a blob container
To add on to what Egon said, simply create your blob called “folder/1.txt”, and it will work. No need to create a directory.
Checking if a blob exists in Azure Storage
The new API has the .Exists() function call. Just make sure that you use the GetBlockBlobReference, which doesn’t perform the call to the server. It makes the function as easy as: public static bool BlobExistsOnCloud(CloudBlobClient client, string containerName, string key) { return client.GetContainerReference(containerName) .GetBlockBlobReference(key) .Exists(); }
Azure Blob Storage vs. File Service [closed]
A few items for your question: You can’t mount Azure Blob Storage as a native share on a virtual machine. Azure Blob Storage isn’t hierarchical beyond containers. You can add files that have / or \ characters in them that are interpreted as folders by many apps that read blob storage. Azure File Service provides … Read more