langchain/docs/integrations/azure_blob_storage.md

Azure Blob Storage

Azure Blob Storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that doesn't adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data.

Azure Files offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, Network File System (NFS) protocol, and Azure Files REST API. Azure Files are based on the Azure Blob Storage.

Azure Blob Storage is designed for:

• Serving images or documents directly to a browser.
• Storing files for distributed access.
• Streaming video and audio.
• Writing to log files.
• Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving.
• Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.

Installation and Setup

pip install azure-storage-blob

Document Loader

See a usage example for the Azure Blob Storage.

from langchain.document_loaders import AzureBlobStorageContainerLoader

See a usage example for the Azure Files.

from langchain.document_loaders import AzureBlobStorageFileLoader