What is Azure Storage?

• Microsoft-managed cloud based storage service
  • A cloud based service for persisting and retrieving data
  • In Azure portal it’s called a storage account
• A storage platform for modern data storage scenarios
• A smart solution for storage problems
• Storage services offer
  • Object store for data objects
  • File system service for the cloud
  • NoSQL store
  • Disk storage for Azure virtual machines
• Details: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction

Core storage services

Azure Storage platform has following data services:

• Azure Blobs: Object store (text and binary data, support for big data analytics)
• Azure Queues: Message store (messaging between application components)
• Azure Tables: NoSQL store (for schemaless structured data)
• Azure Files: Managed file (for cloud or on-premises)
• Azure Disks: Block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs

Types of storage account

• General purpose storage account
• Blob storage account

Types of storages

General purpose storage account:

• Standard
  • Blob
  • Queue
  • Table
  • File
• Premium:
  • Azure VM disks

Blob storage account:

• Hot access tier
• Cool access tier
• Archive access tier

Details: Types of storage accounts

Features

• Massively scalable
• Extremely flexible
• Durable and high availability
• Relatively low in cost depending on the options you choose
• Secured
• Managed