A blob snapshot is a read-only version of a blob that is captured at a point in time. This feature appears as highly important for backing up Azure Virtual Machines.Īzure virtual machine disks are stored as page blobs in Azure Storage. But the 50,000 block per Blob limit remains unchanged.Īnother new feature announced January 2017 is the Incremental Copy Blob API, to facilitate efficient copying and backup of page blob snapshots. In that same announcement, MS mentioned Azure Blob Storage’s maximum supported block size had been raised to 100MB from 4MB. The new increased size for blobs was one of the most requested updates from customers, Microsoft added to that in a December post: “ The increased blob size better supports a diverse range of scenarios, from media companies storing and processing 4K and 8K videos to cancer researchers sequencing DNA”. Microsoft increased the storage Blobs from 195GB to 4.77TB, a significant increase which will get a large of customers greatly satisfied. Some of the new features are Larger blobs, incremental copy, new API capabilities and an updated version for the Storage Emulator.
Microsoft recently announced new features and updated capabilities within Azure Storage. StarWind Virtual Tape Library (VTL) OEM.