App Service should I use Azure Blob Storage to deliver content?

Question

I'm developing a website in Visual Studio hosting it on App Service should I put all my images in a Azure Blob Storage? What's the advantage and disadvantages, is there issues with SEO, is it slower to load compared to storing the images locally, Can I use GZip to compress the files?

Answer 1

@Jason Blake

Following are few advantages of using Azure Storage

1. Can use azure app service with Azure storage to host your static content such as images etc. This will help you to scale when the content are growing. If you chose Azure App service storage it has a maximum storage supported. But with Azure Storage account its possible to scale to petabyte.
2. To serve the content faster we can use Azure CDN endpoint with Azure Storage. so Web App can can take advantage of the CDN to cache the content close to users and serve much more faster.
3. With use of managed identities we can configure to access the storage accounts in secure way.
4. Can use storage account versioning or other advance feature offered from Azure storage

Following has good explanation on how to use static content
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns/static-content-hosting