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Azure Files vs. Azure Blob Storage

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Azure Files vs. Azure Blob Storage

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- [Instructor] Sometimes it's difficult to decide when to use Azure file shares instead of blobs or disk shares in your project. Let's compare different features and discuss when to use each one. If we compare Azure Files to Azure Blobs side by side, we see that Azure Files provides an SMB and NFS interface, client libraries, and a REST interface that allows access from anywhere to store files. Azure Blobs provides client libraries and a REST interface that allows unstructured data with flat namespace to be stored and accessed at a massive scale in the block blobs. Let me explain when to use Azure Files versus Blobs. You can use Azure Files to lift and shift an application to the cloud, which already uses the native file system APIs to share data between it and other applications running in Azure. You will want to store development and debugging tools that need to be accessed from many virtual machines. Azure Blobs, on the other hand, can be used if you want your application to…

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