Parent: Azure
These two services (as well as OneDrive) are Azures primary storage offerings for unstructured data (.txt, videos, files, etc.)
While Azure Blob Storage is very similar to S3 where its :
- Binary object store
- Designed to store massive amounts of data
- Is accessed through HTTP/s apis
Azure files is more ‘filesystem structured’ and is accessed like a network share through SMB:
- File tree based
- Designed to integrate seamlessly to regular file systems
- Is accessed through SMB shares.