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
- hot:
- 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