does azure blob storage use gzip across the wire

Question

I want to know if there is a benefit to zipping files before sending them to Azure Blob Storage - strictly for transfer purposes. Put another way, will pre-zipping files make file transfers any faster when going to/from blob storage? Or does this automatically happen at the transport level by using gzip?

Answer 1

As of 12th August 2015 Azure blob storage (when mounted to the CDN) now supports automatic GZip compression.

Compression method - Supported compression methods are gzip/deflate/bzip2, a supported method must be set in the Accept-Encoding Request Header.

Improve performance by compressing files