Azure Classroom notes 30/Dec/2023

Azure

• Any cloud including azure hosts loads of infrastructure and they offer storage as a service.
• Generally storage costs are two fold
  • size: The cost of this gets impacted by
    • frequency of access
  • data transfers
• Azure infrastructure: Refer Here
• Infrastructure
  • Region:
    • Regions with zones
    • Regions
  • PoP (Points of Presence)
• Storage Services:
  • Storage Account
  • Disks
  • Snapshot
    

Terms

• Availability: This is the ratio used to tell how much % of the time data is accessible to you
• Durability: This is a measurement used in Storage industry as the % to tell the data will not be corrupted or lost.
• Redundancy: Having multiple copies of data. This increases Availability as well as durability
• Gibi byte (GB) vs giga byte (GiB)