It's also a generic interface which is offered by multiple vendors (Azure, Backblaze, etc) including some on-prem options like MinIO. I mean, on one level, a p

It's also a generic interface which is offered by multiple vendors (Azure, Backblaze, etc) including some on-prem options like MinIO. I mean, on one level, a plain directory is also a generic interface, but blob storage has semantics which naturally lend themselves to replication in ways that a regular filesystem doesn't.