Azure Classroom Series – 17/Dec/2020

Azure Storage Account

• This is microsoft’s cloud storage solution for data storage scenarios.
• In Azure Storage account we can create storage for
  • Blob Storage:
  • Table Storage: Storing NoSQL Tables
  • Queue Storage: Storing data in Message Queue in Azure Storage Account
  • File Storage: Storing Network File Shares
• Lets try to understand Account kind
• General Purpose v1 account gives access to all Azure Storage Services such as
  • blobs
  • tables
  • files
  • queues
• General Purpose v1 supports both standard and premium tier
• General Purpose V2 account gives access to all Azure Storage Services as General purpose and it supports an additional feature called as access tier
• Blob Storage account is dedicated for storing blob, it supports block blobs & append blobs
• File Storage Account kind is used to only network file shares in Azure (Supported only in premium tier)
• Block Blob Storage account is used to created only block blobs (Supported only in premium tier)