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Windows Azure Blob Storage
- 1. WINDOWS AZURE BLOB STORAGE DEEPDIVE Wely Lau (wely@ncs.com.sg) Microsoft MVP, Windows Azure Solutions Architect, NCS Pte Ltd Blog : http://wely-lau.net
- 2. AGENDA • WindowsAzure Storage Overview (10 mins) • Blob Storage Basic (15 mins) • Understanding container and blob • Main web service operations • Metadata • Snapshot • Deep Dive (20 mins) • Block blob &page blob • Shared Access Signature • Content Delivery Network • Tip of the day (10 mins) • Q & A (5 mins)
- 3. WINDOWS AZURE STORAGE OVERVIEW
- 4. WINDOWS AZURE STORAGE • Storage in the Cloud • Highly available with 99.9% monthly SLA • Anywhere at anytime access • Data Redundancy • Data is replicated for resilience and protection with 3 copies within the same data center. • Another 3 copies geo-replicated in another data center • Cost effective • Storage capacity: $ 0.14 per GB per month • Storage transaction: $ 0.01 per 10,000 transaction • User specified globally unique account name • Can choose geo-location to host storage account • US – “North Central” and “South Central” • Europe – “North” and “West” • Asia – “East” and “Southeast” • Can co-locate storage account with compute account • Explicitly or using affinity groups • Some Facts • 70 Petabytes raw storage today • Grows to >200 Petabytes by start of 2012
- 5. WINDOWS AZURE STORAGEABSTRACTION
- 6. STORAGE EMULATOR • Provides a local “Mock” storage • Emulates storage in cloud • Allows offline development • Requires SQL Express 2005/2008 or above There are some differences between Cloud and Dev Storage. http://msdn.microsoft.com/dd320275
- 7. ACCESSING WINDOWS AZURESTORAGE VIA API • REST-based Web Service • Platform independent Developers… • Use when a library isn‟t available • Lacks Intellisense • Results in opaque code .NET Java PHP etc... • Storage Client Libraries REST-based API • .NET, Java, Python, Ruby, PHP, Perl, Jav Windows Azure Storage aScript (Node), Objective-C, etc. • More at http://tinyurl.com/was-library • These provide an abstraction layer on top of the REST API and is the most common way to access storage.
- 8. ACCESSING WINDOWS AZURESTORAGE VIA TOOLS • Cloud Storage Studio by Cerebrata • Azure Storage Explorer by Neudistic • CloudXplorer by ClumsyLeaf • CloudBerry Explorer by CloudBerry Lab • More at http://tinyurl.com/was-explorers
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- 11. WINDOWS AZURE BLOBSTORAGE • You can have as many containers and BLOBs as you want. • Containers can be created/destroyed on the fly http://<account>.blob.core.windows.net/<container>/<blobname> http://cohowinery.blob.core.windows.net/images/pic01.jpg Account: MovieConversion blobs Container: Originals Container: Completed - Job1.mpg - Job 9.mpg - Job2.mpg - Index.docx - Header.png - Job8.pdf
- 12. CONTAINERS • Similar toa top level folder • Special $root container http://cohowinery.blob.core.windows.net/pic01.jpg http://cohowinery.blob.core.windows.net/$root/pic01.jpg • Has an unlimited capacity • Can only contain BLOBs • Associate Metadata with Container Each container has an access level: - Private - Default, will require the account key to access - Public read access for blobs only - Blob data within this container can be read via anonymous request, but container data is not available - Full public read - Container and blob data can be read via anonymous request
- 13. BLOB • Main WebService Operations • PutBlob • GetBlob • DeleteBlob • CopyBlob • SnapshotBlob • LeaseBlob • Associate Metadata with Blob • Metadata is <name, value> pairs, up to 8KB per blob • Blob always accessed by name • Can include „/„ or other delimeter in name • e.g. /<container>/myblobs/blob.jpg
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- 16. TWO TYPES OFBLOBS UNDER THE HOOD
- 17. UPLOADING A BLOCKBLOB • Uploading a large blob with Put Block List
- 18. PAGE BLOB –RANDOM READ/WRITE
- 19. demo BLOCK BLOB /PAGE BLOB
- 20. SHARED ACCESS SIGNATURE •Fine grain access rights to blobs and containers • Sign URL with storage key – permit elevated rights • Revocation • Use short time periods and re-issue • Use container level policy that can be deleted • Two broad approaches • Ad-hoc • Policy based
- 21. AD HOC SIGNATURES • Create Short Dated Shared Access Signature • Signedresource Blob or Container • AccessPolicy Start, Expiry and Permissions • Signature HMAC-SHA256 of above fields • Use case • Single use URLs • E.g. Provide URL to Silverlight client to upload to container
- 22. POLICY BASED SIGNATURES • Create Container Level Policy • Specify StartTime, ExpiryTime, Permissions • Create Shared Access Signature URL • Signedresource Blob or Container • Signedidentifier Optional pointer to container policy • Signature HMAC-SHA256 of above fields • Use case • Providing revocable permissions to certain users/groups • To revoke: Delete or update container policy
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- 24. CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK • High-bandwidth global blob content delivery • 24 locations globally (US, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America), and growing • Same experience for users no matter how far they are from the geo-location where the storage account is hosted • Blob service URL vs. CDN URL: • Windows Azure Blob URL: http://images.blob.core.windows.net/ • Windows Azure CDN URL: http://<id>.vo.msecnd.net/ • Custom Domain Name for CDN: http://cdn.contoso.com/
- 25. CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK North Europe North Central US East Asia West Europe South Central US South East Asia
- 26. CONTENT DELIVERY NETWORK ToEnable CDN: • Register for CDN via Dev Portal • Set container images to public
- 27. demo CONTENTDELIVERY NETWORK URL Time No CDN AVG http://welyncus.blob.core.windows.net/mseinstall 11:23 58 seconds .exe 50 seconds 11:24 49 seconds 11:27 43 seconds http://az145199.vo.msecnd.net/mseinstall.exe 11:28 40 seconds 39 seconds 11:29 37 seconds 11:30 40 seconds http://welydemostorage.blob.core.windows.net/ 11:32 38 seconds mseinstall.exe 37.67 seconds 11:32 34 seconds 11:33 41 seconds http://az28746.vo.msecnd.net/mseinstall.exe 11:35 36 seconds 31 seconds 11:36 29 seconds 11:37 28 seconds
- 28. TIP OF THEDAY
- 29. LIVE PERFORMANCE COUNTER • Checkout: http://tinyurl.com/wely-live-perf • Hosting web content in Blob Storage • Query Blob Storage from the browser Idea courtesy to Steve Marx
- 30. THANK YOU! Wely Lau(wely@ncs.com.sg) Microsoft MVP, Windows Azure Solutions Architect, NCS Pte Ltd Blog : http://wely-lau.net
Editor's Notes
- #2 This session discusses your data and the Windows Azure platform.
- #7 Slide ObjectiveUnderstand the Development Storage ServiceSpeaking notesClient side simulator of storage in the cloud. Allows completely disconnected (e.g. while travelling on a plane) development of Windows Azure appsCan consume just like Cloud storage- from Development Fabric, from another application running locallyIs locked down so that it cannot be called from off the boxIf you need this capability run a reverse proxy on the dev machineCan use CSRun to start and stop serviceMore on this in Day 3Uses a single fixed account. The account name and key are always the sameAnyone memorized the Account key yet? Eby8vd…..Noteshttp://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179339.aspxThe Windows® Azure™ SDK development environment includes development storage, a utility that simulates the Blob, Queue, and Table services available in the cloud. If you are building a hosted service that employs storage services or writing any external application that calls storage services, you can test locally against development storage.The development storage utility provides a user interface to view the status of the local storage services and to start, stop, and reset them.This topic contains the following subtopics: