Accelerated AI & Analytics workload on Azure Blob Storage: Up to 25x faster List Blobs operations

Today Azure Storage introduces in preview a new List Blobs optimization that accelerates listing operations by up to 25x with up to 15x lower client-side CPU utilization allowing customers to return millions of objects per second in List Blobs results. The list results are now returned in Apache Arrow format, a highly optimized and compact columnar response format that allows more efficient parsing and reduced client-side CPU utilization. Clients can now parallelize object list operations efficiently across multiple concurrent requests, while maintaining the same strong consistency of listing