Azure Blob Storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data. This service is ideal for serving images or documents directly to a browser, storing files for distributed access, streaming video and audio, writing to log files, and storing data for backup, restore, disaster recovery, and archiving. Unlike file shares, which are optimized for SMB and NFS access protocols, or queues that provide messaging functionality, Blob Storage is specifically designed to store unstructured data with HTTP/HTTPS access, making it suitable for web-based access from anywhere in the world.