Storage in Azure

• Azure offers services to create/manage storage according to our needs.
• Lets look at storage services offered by Azure
  
• Major Services:
  • Storage Account
    • Disk Storage
    • File Storage
    • Log Storage
    • Blob Storage
    • Data lake storage
  • Managed Disks
  • Hybrid Cloud:
    • Storsimple
    • Azure Stack Edge
  • Storage Migrations:
    • Data Box
  • Datalake’s
  • HPC Data Share

Azure Global Infrastructure

• Regions: Refer Here
  • Regions without Zones
  • Regions with zones
• PoP (Points of Presence): Refer Here
• Azure Backbone Network: Network connecting every azure region and PoP

Terms

• Redundancy: Copy of the original that can be used for disasters/failure recoveries. Azure Supports following redundancies
  • Within Datacenter
  • Zone redundancy
  • Region redundancy
• Latency: Time taken by a network packet to travel from your local system to server. Refer Here for the website to help find latencies