Azure Storage Solutions

• Azure has multiple storage options for various needs
  • Azure Blob Storage:
    • Storing unstructured data and files (video, audio, text, log)
    • They are accesible over https
  • Azure Data Lake Gen 2:
    • This is superset of Blob storage optimized for Big Data Analytics
  • Azure Files: Provides remote file shares that can be mounted using SMB or NFS
  • Azure Queues: Azure queues are used to to store messages to communicate between applications/components reliabily and asynchronous
  • Azure Tables: These are key-value storage.
  • Disk Storage:
    • Managed disk
    • Unmanaged disk

Azure Storage Account

• Azure Storage Account is a service offered by Azure which helps in Creating
  • Azure Blobs
  • Azure Queues
  • Azure Tables
  • Azure Files
• Types of Blobs:
  • Page Blob:
    • This represents the virtual hard disk (unmanaged disk)
  • Block Blob:
    • Literally any file
    • individual file size cannot be greater than 4.7 TiB
  • Append Blob: These are used for log files
• Types of Storage Accounts:
  • Standard: This offers unstructured data storage in Azure. we can create blobs, queues, tables, files
    • General Purpose V2
    • Redundancy Options:
      • LRS
      • GRS
      • ZRS
      • GZRS
  • Premium:
    • Blob Storage
    • File Share
    • Page Blob
    • Redundancy options:
      • LRS
      • ZRS
• Types of Redundancies (Azure in general):
  • Locally Redundant Storage (LRS):
    • Three copies of data an stores it in three different servers in the same Datacenter in a region
  • Zone Redundant Storage
    • Three copies of data is created and stored in three zones (each copy in one zone)
  • Geo Redundant Storage (Readonly):
    • LRS + similar copies in different region
  • Geo Zone Redundant Storage (Readonly):
    • ZRS + similar copies in different region
• Refer Here for official azure docs for data redundancies and Refer Here for the summary.

Creating a Standard RA-GZRS Storage Account

• Create a storage account
  
  
• Lets create a container called as videos and upload mp4 files