Azure Classroom Series – 28/May/2021

Types of Storage Accounts

• Standard general purpose v2:

  • Supported Storage Services:
    • Blob
    • Queue
    • Table
    • Azure Files
  • Redundancy Options: LRS/GRS/RA GRS / ZRS/GZRS/RA-GRS
  • Usage: Most widely used storage account option

• Premium block blobs:

  • Supported Storage Services: Blob Storage
  • Redundancy Options: LRS, ZRS
  • Usage: Recommended for scenarios with high transaction rates

• Premium file shares:

  • Supported Storage Services: Azure Files
  • Redundancy Options: LRS, ZRS
  • Usage: Recommended for enterprise application

• Premium Page Blob:

  • Supported Storage Services: Page Blob
  • Redundancy Options: LRS

• Creating premium storage accounts

  • Premium blob storage account:
  • Premium File Share Storage Account
  • Premium Page Blob Storage Account

Storage Account endpoints

• A Storage accounts provides a unique namespace in Azure for the data which is combination of storage account name and Azure Storage service endpoint forms

• In Azure two storage accounts with same name are not allowed as endpoints collide.

Understand Azure Storage Account Pricing

• Exercise:
  • Create a price estimate for 100 GB storage in Azure Storage Account and will be accessed by approximately 1000 people
  • Create an estimate with Hot tier and cool tier
  • Create an estimate with standard and premium blob storage.
• Refer Here for the pricing of azure storage accounts
• Refer Here to estimate costs using azure storage account

Next Steps:

1. Data Protection
2. Redundancy and disaster recovery
3. Azure File Storage
4. Demo of Azure Page Blob.