You can now analyze even more of your enterprise data using Couchbase Analytics – without having to move or migrate a byte. Starting today, I’m excited to announce the forthcoming support for Microsoft Azure Blob Storage for external Analytics Collections (currently in Developer Preview). This news follows the support for external Analytics Collections for Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) in the Couchbase Server 6.6 release. In short, this announcement means more Couchbase customers can combine data from external sources with local data and remote Couchbase data. Some customers use Azure Blob Storage to reduce storage costs for large volumes of data and want to combine, query and utilize data from Azure Blob Storage in real time for business users and data analytics. External Analytics Collections enable dynamic querying and analysis of data residing in external sources, allowing easy combination of data in real time from both inside and outside Couchbase Analytics nodes. To demonstrate this, an ecommerce company iMaz stores their product reviews on Azure Blob Storage and combines them with their internal data using the Couchbase Analytics Service to run ad hoc queries and analyze business trends. With External Analytics Collections, you can develop complex ad hoc queries for interactive data exploration, answer new business questions, and combine external data from Remote Links to involve other Couchbase data sources as well. Your teams conduct faster and more comprehensive data analyses for more agile decision-making.