Azure Blobs, Azure Files, Azure Disks compared

Tabular summary paraphrased from the article Deciding when to use Azure Blobs, Azure Files, or Azure Disks

Attribute	Azure Blobs	Azure Files	Azure Disk
Description	Provides an SMB interface, client libraries, and a REST interface that allows access from anywhere to stored files.	Provides client libraries and a REST interface that allows unstructured data to be stored and accessed at a massive scale in block blobs.	Provides client libraries and a REST interface that allows data to be persistently stored and accessed from an attached virtual hard disk.
When to use	You want to "lift and shift" an application to the cloud which already uses the native file system APIs to share data between it and other applications running in Azure. You want to store development and debugging tools that need to be accessed from many virtual machines.	You want your application to support streaming and random access scenarios.  You want to be able to access application data from anywhere.	You want to lift and shift applications that use native file system APIs to read and write data to persistent disks. You want to store data that is not required to be accessed from outside the virtual machine to which the disk is attached.
Durability options	LRS, ZRS, GRS (and RA-GRS for higher availability)	LRS, GRS
Accessibility	REST APIs	REST APIs SMB 2.1 and SMB 3.0 (standard file system APIs)	REST APIs Files within the VHD cannot be accessed using REST APIs
Connectivity	REST APIs -- Worldwide	REST APIs - Worldwide SMB 2.1 -- Within region SMB 3.0 -- Worldwide
Endpoints	http://myaccount.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myblob	\\myaccount.file.core.windows.net\myshare\myfile.txt http://myaccount.file.core.windows.net/myshare/myfile.txt
Directories	Flat namespace	True directory objects
Case sensitivity of names	Case sensitive	Case insensitive, but case preserving
Capacity	Up to 500 TB containers	5 TB File Share and 1 TB file within share	1 TB disk
Throughput	Up to 60 MB/s per block blob	Up to 60 MB/s per share	Up to 60 MB/s per Disk
Object Size	Up to 200 GB/block blob	Up to 1TB/file
Billed capacity	Based on bytes written	Based on file size
Client libraries	Multiple languages	Multiple languages	Multiple languages
Scope		Exclusive to a single virtual machine	Shared access across multiple virtual machines
Snapshots and Copy		Yes	No
Configuration		Connected at startup of the virtual machine	Connected after the virtual machine has started
Authentication		Built-in	Set up with net use
Cleanup		Automatic	Manual
Max 8KB IOps		500 IOps	1000 IOps
Limitations		2000 open handles quota on a single file AD-based authentication or ACLs not supported	Default and also the maximum limit is 10,000 Managed Disks per subscription, per region and per storage type (standard, premium) A standard storage account has a maximum total request rate of 20,000 IOPS. The total IOPS across all of your virtual machine disks in a standard storage account should not exceed this limit.