The one difference that decides your migration
Azure Blob Storage has its own API, with its own SDKs, its own authentication and its own concepts — containers rather than buckets, blobs rather than objects. Our object storage speaks the S3 API, which is the interface almost every other tool in the ecosystem already implements.
That is the real work in a migration, and it is worth being blunt about it: if your application talks to Blob through the Azure SDK, you will change that layer. If it talks to Blob through a compatibility shim, or if you are still choosing, you are simply picking the interface with more tooling around it — aws-cli, mc, rclone, boto3, s3cmd and every backup tool that ever grew an S3 target.
Everything else — durability expectations, public or private objects, lifecycle habits — transfers conceptually. The API is the decision.
Where the data sits is your choice
Azure asks you to pick a region, and depending on which one you pick, the data may end up outside the jurisdiction your legal team cares about. The question is the same here, and so is the answer: you choose the country or region your data is stored in. We run storage nodes in Turkey, in Europe and in the United States, and your buckets are placed where you need them rather than wherever our first datacentre happened to be.
That choice tends to be driven by two different needs, and they pull in opposite directions. Compliance wants the data in a specific jurisdiction — for a Turkish company answering KVKK, "in Turkey" is a much shorter answer than a paragraph about transfer mechanisms. Latency wants the data near the people reading it. You do not have to solve both in the storage tier: put the objects where compliance requires, then let the CDN serve the public ones from the edge closest to the visitor.
If you have a jurisdiction requirement, tell us before you start uploading — placing a bucket in the right region on day one costs nothing, and moving terabytes later is not free.
A CDN in front of the bucket, from the same panel
On Azure the storage account and the CDN profile are separate products you wire together. Here the bucket and the CDN are the same account: you point a hostname at the bucket, set cache rules for the paths that deserve them, and purge exactly like you purge any other origin — from the panel, the API or the CLI.
That matters most for the boring cases. A product image that changes gets purged by path. A whole folder gets purged by prefix. The cache key is the same one your delivery rules already define, so there is no second mental model for "the storage CDN".
Pricing you can read without a calculator
Cloud storage bills tend to arrive in pieces: storage, then egress, then operations, then a separate line for the CDN in front. The pieces are individually small and collectively surprising.
Here storage and delivery draw on one monthly pool — the traffic you serve and the storage you hold are counted together against the plan you bought, and the price is in Turkish Lira on a Turkish invoice. We are not going to publish a comparison table against Azure's current rates, because those rates change and a stale table on a vendor page is worse than none. Check your own Azure bill for the month, then look at the plan page here; that comparison is the only one worth trusting.
What Azure has that we do not
An honest comparison page has to include this part.
Azure gives you dozens of regions worldwide and we do not; we offer storage in Turkey, Europe and the United States, which covers most requirements and not all of them. Azure has archive and cool tiers with their own economics; our storage is one tier. Azure sits inside an ecosystem where blob storage is a building block for dozens of other Azure services; if your architecture leans on those, leaving means unpicking more than storage.
The case for moving is specific rather than universal: you want the S3 API, you want to choose the jurisdiction and get a Turkish invoice for it, you want the CDN and the bucket managed together, and you do not need the surrounding ecosystem. If that is not your case, staying on Azure is a reasonable answer and we would rather say so than sell you a migration.
Azure Blob alternative FAQ
Is your storage API-compatible with Azure Blob?
No, and no S3-compatible provider is. Blob has its own API. Ours implements the S3 API, so the migration work is in the layer of your application that talks to storage. Tools that already speak S3 — aws-cli, rclone, mc, boto3 — work without changes.
How do I move existing data across?
rclone is the usual path: it speaks both Azure Blob and S3, so a single copy job moves a container into a bucket. For large sets, run it from a machine with good connectivity to both ends and verify with a checksum pass afterwards.
Can I keep my domain on the files?
Yes. Point a hostname at the bucket through the CDN and the public URLs stay on your own domain with automatic SSL, rather than on a provider-owned storage domain.
Where is the data stored, physically?
Where you choose. We have storage in Turkey, in Europe and in the United States, and a bucket is placed in the region you ask for. For a Turkish company that usually means Turkey, because it turns a KVKK question into a location rather than an explanation — but if your users or your auditors are elsewhere, say so when you set the account up.
What happens to egress costs?
Traffic you serve counts against the same monthly pool as your other delivery rather than arriving as a separate egress line. If most of your objects are public and cached at the edge, the origin fetch happens once and the repeat traffic is served from the edge.