🆚 Azure Blob Storage vs. Google Cloud Storage
- 📈 Google Cloud Storage is three times more popular than Azure Blob Storage.
- 🌎 Google Cloud Storage is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan.
- 🌍 Azure Blob Storage is more popular in the Czech Republic, Lebanon, and Paraguay.
Google Cloud StorageType
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.
Google Cloud Storage is a managed object storage service for storing and accessing unstructured data on Google's infrastructure.
It provides multiple storage classes and lifecycle management, encryption and IAM controls, strong global consistency, Turbo Replication offering a 15-minute recovery point objective (RPO), and the Cloud Storage FUSE tool for mounting buckets as local filesystems.
Headquarters
cloud.google.com/storagePricing
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Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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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.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United States in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Japan in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in the United Kingdom in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Germany in the Cloud Storages category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Brazil in the Cloud Storages category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,001,723 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.