Account Kind

• Azure storage offers several types of storage accounts. With each type you have different pricing model & different set of features
• Refer Here for official docs
• Storage Account Types
  • General Purpose v2
  • General Purpose v1
  • Block Blob Storage
  • FileStorage
  • BlobStorage
• Storage Account Name has to be between 3 & 24 characters(lowercase & numbers) & should be unique within Azure.

Access Tiers in General Purpose V2

• In Azure Storage accounts, the billing of storage is impacted by 2 factors
  • size
  • data access
• GPV2 and BlobStorage Account has 3 access tiers
  • hot:
    • optimized for frequently access of objects.
    • Data access costs are low while storage costs are higher
    • Availability SLA: 99.9%
    • Latency: milliseconds
    • Minimum Storage Duration: N/A
  • cold
    • Optimized for storing large amounts of data that is infrequently accessed (stored for at least 30 days).
    • Relative to Hot tier, data access costs are higher & storage costs are lower
    • Availability SLA: 99%
    • Latency: milliseconds
    • Minimum Storage Duration: 30 days
  • archive:
    • This tier is designed for long-term archiving of infrequently accessed/used data
    • This tier is most cost effective option for storing data, but to access the data it is more expensive that Hot or Cool tiers.
    • Data in Archive tier is stored offline & must be re hydrated to the Cool or Hot tier before it can be accessed. This process might take up to 15 hours
    • Availability SLA: N/A
    • Latency: Up to 15 hours
    • Minimum Storage Duration: 180 days
• In Azure while creating a storage account a default access tier for that specific storage account is defined. Individual Items in your storage account can be set to other access tier.

Now Create a Storage Account

• Select the Default options and give unique name
• Lets try to create storage account with Different account kind (BlobStorage)
• Lets try to create storage account with General Purpose V1
• Depending on Account Kind the storage account feature change

Next Steps:

• Understanding uploading objects to storage accounts
• Accessing objects from storage accounts
• CLI/Powershell to create/manage storage accounts along with portal.
• For setting up Azure CLI/Powershell Refer Here