Azure Blob Storage

5 engineers on Hacker News describe using Azure Blob Storage first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 1 are mixed.

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5first-hand users

5in production

endorse 1mixed 1regret 1uses, no opinion

“we've switched over to storing this data in Azure Blob Storage... so far it's been working quite nicely!”

endorse · production · dcreager · 2021-12-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the Azure Blob Store local container is completely broken for any sensible usage”

regret · production · gravypod · 2020-08-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“One good point is cheap blob, slow but cheap.”

mixed · production · erazor42 · 2015-01-09 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“a static website for our docs served from Blob Storage, this incident will make us do it sooner rather than later.”

neutral · production · jonathanlydall · 2025-10-29 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“In Azure, we use ~5 products: AAD/Entra ID, DNS, Azure Functions, SQL Server, Azure Blob Storage.”

neutral · production · bob1029 · 2023-12-16 · source ↗ · wrong label?