Storage Account

• It is single service for all the storage needs.

Storage Options in Storage Account

• Blob:
  • Binary Large Object
  • Generally exposed over https
• Disk:
  • Hard Disk
• Azure File Share:
  • Network Disk
• Table Storage:
  • NoSQL Database
• Queue Storage:
  • Message Queues

Disk Configurations to be considered

• Hardware:
  • SSD
  • HDD
• Size:
• Speed:
  • is measure in IOPS (IO per second)
  • 256 MiB/s => 1 IOPS

Blob Pricing

• Refer Here

Basic Datacenters in Azure

Storage Account options

• Redundancy

Redundancy

• LRS:
  • Local Redundancy
  • Copies of the data are stored in the same Data Center (Region)
  • Three copies of the data are stored in different racks in the same data center
• ZRS:
  • Zone Redundancy
  • Copies of the data are stored in different zones of same region
• GRS:
  • Geo Redundancy
  • One copy of the data will be stored in a different region