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Disadvantages of Azure Blob Storage

Although Azure Blob Storage is well-known for its many benefits, there are also some disadvantages to consider when we use this storage solution.

• Azure Blob Storage is designed to store unstructured data. But, it does not provide advanced querying capabilities like a relational database.

  Although it offers tools like Azure Data Lake Storage and Azure Databricks for more complex analytics, direct querying of data requires additional processing or tools.
• Azure Blob Storage offers eventual consistency. In other words, changes made to data are not immediately reflected in all copies of the data.
• While Azure Blob Storage supports encryption of data in transit, it does not provide native encryption-at-rest mechanisms.
• Managing access control can be complex when dealing with multiple users, applications, and security policies.
• If our application requires extensive search capabilities, Azure Blob Storage is not the best fit.
• Transferring data in and out of Azure Blob Storage leads to data egress charges.
• While Azure Blob Storage is cost-effective, managing costs gets difficult as data grows and storage tiers are chosen.
• Although Azure Blob Storage integrates well with different Azure services, sometimes we may have to use custom solutions to connect it with certain third-party applications.
• There is a learning curve if we are new to cloud storage concepts or Azure services.

However, Azure Blob Storage is a valuable storage solution. It helps with unstructured data where scalability, durability, and cost-effectiveness are important.

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Conclusion

Today, our Support Techs introduced us to the disadvantages of Azure Blob Storage.