What is the difference between Block Blob and Page Blob

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What is the difference between Block Blob and Page Blob ?

Raja T · Answer

Hello Sridhar Block blobs : Block blobs are for your discrete storage objects like jpg's log files etc. that you'd typically view as a file in your local OS. Max. size 200GB. Page blobs: Page blobs are for random read/write storage such as VHD's (in fact page blobs are what's used for Azure Virtual Machine disks). Max. size 1TB. Supported by the new Azure Premium Storage offering. more details check out below links https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee691964.aspx http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29079268/differences-between-azure-block-blob-and-page-blob https://sites.google.com/a/cloudenablers.com/blog/windowsazure/block-blob-page-blob