Menu
For example, at Amazon S3, there is a convention, if you have both 'bundle.js' and 'bundle.js.gz' uploaded to the server, and a client requests for 'bundle.js' file with 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' header, Amazon S3 will serve the compressed version of this file ('bundle.js.gz' instead of 'bundle.js').
Does Windows Azure Storage support this? If not, what are workarounds?
203
For data that is infrequently accessed but must be available immediately when accessed, Azure Cool Blob Storage tier provides cheaper storage than standard blob storage. This storage tier is comparable to AWS S3 - Infrequent Access storage service.
Size of storage in Azure Blob Storage allows up to 100 accounts per subscription and a 500 TB storage account limit. But with AWS S3 it allows up to 100 buckets per bucket, but you can scale this limit. Also, it doesn't limit the number of objects you can store per bucket.
Azure Storage supports three types of blobs: Block blobs store text and binary data. Block blobs are made up of blocks of data that can be managed individually. Block blobs can store up to about 190.7 TiB.
Although blob storage doesn't support content compression on service level we can still create compressed files and set response headers so browsers understand that content is compressed.
Azure Storage allows you to define Content-Encoding property on a blob. For compressed content, you could set this property to be GZIP and when this content is served by a browser, it automatically decompresses the content and shows the uncompressed content.
This is a bit different than Amazon S3 though where you actually have to upload 2 files. Here you will only upload one file (bundle.js in your example) which is compressed and has content-encoding set as GZIP.
195
As of 12th August 2015 Azure CDN (mounted on blob storage) 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
25
If you love us? You can donate to us via Paypal or buy me a coffee so we can maintain and grow! Thank you!
Donate Us With
