Does Windows Azure Blob Storage support serving compressed files similar to Amazon S3?

Question

For example, at Amazon S3, there is a convention, if you have both \'bundle.js\' and \'bundle.js.gz\' uploaded to the server, and a client requests for \'bundle.js\' file wi

Answer 1

As of 12th August 2015 Azure CDN (mounted on blob storage) now supports automatic GZip compression.

Compression method - Supported compression methods are gzip/deflate/bzip2, a supported method must be set in the Accept-Encoding Request Header.

Improve performance by compressing files

Answer 2

Azure Storage allows you to define Content-Encoding property on a blob. For compressed content, you could set this property to be GZIP and when this content is served by a browser, it automatically decompresses the content and shows the uncompressed content.

This is a bit different than Amazon S3 though where you actually have to upload 2 files. Here you will only upload one file (bundle.js in your example) which is compressed and has content-encoding set as GZIP.