Azure Storage

Question

Hello everyone... I have a question, I need to store PDF documents or perhaps jpg, png images, etc. At first the space will be little, but then it could increase until it has a few terabytes.

The client from our App will upload these documents in the same App and our System will be in charge of sending them to Storage through some API. Then the same client could want to download a document that they have uploaded and view it, they also do this from the same App, and our system would handle it through the API to fetch the document and show it to them.

I was reading the different Storage and I think that Blob Storage could be used with the "HOT" option, but my question is if this option is useful so that the client when they want to see a document is displayed in seconds (2-4 seconds no more)??

Thanks!!

Answer 1

Hello,

The option of a Storage in Azure is perfect, as for the tier, normally to retrieve files and return them to customers you can use COOL without problem. More than the speed of access to the cool and hot files, they differ in the number of times the file is accessed.

Anyway you can also define a life cycle for the files for example according to their creation date starting with Hot, passing through cool and finally if they are not needed except for archive use archive.