Blob Storage – First Service of AWS

• History
  
• Use Case – OTT (Over the Top): OTT platforms require the videos to be streamed to the customer devices from the servers. It is not a good idea to have all the videos from some centralized location, so decentralizing it would be good for reducing latency
  
• OTT Platforms require global presence for the videos to be streamed and building this on their own is not a feasible options, So cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP provide storage service which is affordable where you pay only for the content (size and usage)
• Use Case – Backups and Archivals (long term storage)
  
• Use Case 3 – Applications with media: Applications like facebook, ecommerce site, instagram etc requires images and videos to be stored