🆚 Azure Blob Storage vs. Cloud Storage for Firebase

📈 Azure Blob Storage is slightly more popular than Cloud Storage for Firebase.
🌎 Azure Blob Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands.
🌍 Cloud Storage for Firebase is more popular in Germany, India, and France.

Statistics based on 4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Azure Blob Storage

Cloud Storage for Firebase

Type

Cloud storage service

About

Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's cloud object storage service for storing massive amounts of unstructured data such as text, images, and binary files.

It provides five access tiers, including a Smart tier that automatically shifts data between Hot, Cool, and Cold based on usage, three blob types optimized for specific operations, and always-on transparent 256-bit AES encryption compliant with FIPS 140-2.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Mountain View, California, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

firebase.google.com/docs/storage

Pricing

Free tier ✔️ 12-month trial: 5 GB of Hot storage with 20K read/10K write operations per month

Storage Tiers Premium $0.15/GB
Hot $0.0184-/GB
Cool $0.01/GB/month
Cold $0.0036/GB/month
Archive $0.002/GB/month

Operations on Hot storage
(per 10,000) Read $0.004
Write $0.05

Internet Egress
(per month) Free tier ✔️ First 100 GB
Next $0.087-/GB

Free tier ✔️ 5 GB of storage and 20K upload operations + 50K download operations + 1 GB transfer out per day

Storage $0.026/GB

Operations (per 10K) Upload $0.05
Download $0.004

Data transfer out $0.12/GB

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Azure Blob Storage service is 1.2 times more popular than Cloud Storage for Firebase.

Total websites

Market share

Cloud Storages

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Azure Blob Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, while Cloud Storage for Firebase is more popular in Germany, India, and France.

United States

United Kingdom

Netherlands

Germany

Australia

India

Canada

France

Brazil

Italy

Awards

🥈 Second most popular in the Czech Republic in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in the Netherlands in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Sweden in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Norway in the Cloud Storages category.

🥉 Third most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Poland in the Cloud Storages category.
🥉 Third most popular in Romania in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 4th most popular in India in the Cloud Storages category.
⭐ 4th most popular in France in the Cloud Storages category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Azure Blob Storage is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and health, while Cloud Storage for Firebase is more commonly used on online shopping, fashion and beauty, and blogs and wiki sites.

Online Shopping

Business

Marketing/Merchandising

Health

Education/Reference

Fashion/Beauty

Sports

Internet Services

Travel

Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#14

#185

#527

#991

#1,570

Name

Rank

#2,763

#4,077

#5,918

#6,451

#6,743