Reservations in Azure

• Refer Here for Azure reservations where azure offers more discount if we give a commitment for 1 year or 3 years

Storage Acccount

• Different Types of Data that can be stored in Azure Storage account
  • Block Blob => Any file less than 4.7 TiB
  • Page Blob => Virtual Hard disk
  • Append Blob => Log files
  • Table Storage => NoSQL Data
  • File Share => Network Disk
  • Queue Storage => Message Queue
• Account Types: Refer Here
• Premium Blob storage Refer Here
• Premium blob storage scenarios Refer Here
• Azure Storage Account created will not be part of virtual network
• Any data in storage account is accessed over https using internet which can be restricted.

Activity 1: create a basic storage account

• Create a storage account with standard, any redundancy other than LRS
• Create two containers
  • shared (Anonymous access blob/container)
  • private (private accesss)
• Upload any files preferabbly (.txt,.pdf,.mp3,.png,.mp4)

Solution

• Created a resource group in east us
• Create a storage account
  
  
  
  
• Upload files to private container
  
• upload files to public container
  
• Error message when trying to access private container blob
  

Activity 2: Create other storage types

• File Share
  
  
  
  
• Queue Storage
  
  
• Table Storage
  
  

Exercise:

• Create a premium
  • block blob storage account
  • file share storage account
  • page blob storage account