Azure Classroom Series – 27/Oct/2021

Storage Accounts in Azure

• Azure Storage account provides a cloud based storage service i.e. highyl available, scalable, performant and durable.

• With each storage account, a number of storage services are provided

  • Blobs:
    • Provides highy scalable service for storing data objects such as text or binary data
    • There are three types of storage blobs
      • Block Blobs: Any file can be stored (Each file cannot have size greater than 4.7 TB).
      • Append Blobs: To store log files where generally we have text data which can be appended
      • Page Blobs: Generally used to store VHD (Virtual Hard disk) which is referred as un managed disk
  • Tables: Provides a NOSQL-style store for storing structured data.
  • Queues: Provides reliable message queueing between application components
  • Files: Provides managed file share that can be used by Azure VMs or on-premises

• Lets create a storage account

• Now lets navigate options for storage account

• Exercise: Create a storage account with name <name>storforlearning

• Lets create a container