Azure services–triggers and bindings

Let's look at each Azure service that supports either triggers or bindings with Azure Functions. We will look at each Azure service one at time, and look at what it supports. Let's start with Azure Blob storage.

Azure Blob storage

Azure Blob storage is scalable storage for unstructured data. It can support storage capacities up to exabytes with massive amounts of scalability. Azure Blob storage can store billions of objects in different tiers, such as hot, cool, and archive. The tiers are determined by how often you access the data. You can store any type of data in Azure Blob storage, such as images, audio, videos, documents, and many more, all at cost-effective pricing. 

You can learn more about Azure Blob storage at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/.

Azure Blob storage supports triggers and input and output bindings for Azure Functions. 

Trigger

The Azure Blob storage trigger for Azure Functions will start a function whenever a new...