Why is downloading from Azure blobs taking so long?

Adding to An Extra Small instance has a very small fraction of bandwidth that even a Small gives you. You'll see approx. 5Mbps on an Extra Small, and approx.

100Mbps on a Small (for Small through Extra Large, you'll get approx. 100Mbps per core).

The extra small instance has limited IO performance. Have you tried going for a medium sized instance for comparison?

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