Azure Storage
Learn the basics of Azure Storage accounts, demo setting up storage accounts, and understand the Stock Keeping Units (SKUs) tiers.
We’ll start with an introduction to Azure Storage and go through some demo exercises. Further, we’ll cover Azure SLAs and Azure Key Vaults.
Then, we’ll learn how to create VMs and back them up. We’ll also cover some basic introductory concepts related to different databases and move to Azure App Service. Moving on, we’ll cover various types of applications, high availability, and Azure network security groups (NSGs).
Azure Storage services
Azure Storage is a PaaS feature of Microsoft Azure that gives us a great storage option for various data objects in the cloud. We can store our data in Azure Storage account containers and can access them from anywhere in the world if we have valid rights to access them.
As businesses are scaled and the number of users increases, the data grows beyond the managing capacity of hard drives. This feature helps store all that data on the cloud.
We can consume these storage accounts in our business applications and they make our life easier through a number of use cases. For instance, suppose we’ve uploaded a sample image to the Azure Storage container by creating a folder and placing the image inside it. However, in the future, companies may consider replacing the image file in the Azure Storage container by deleting the folder.
Note: The total capacity of an Azure Storage account is five petabytes.
In the given illustration, we can see the list of data storage services Azure offers:
Azure Blob Storage: It stores large amounts of unstructured data e.g., documents, backup and restore files, log files, and so on.
Azure Files: This service is used to manage file shares for the cloud. It makes it easy to “lift and shift” applications to the cloud.
Azure Disks: They are block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs.
Azure Queue Storage: This is used for messaging services in the applications. These messages can be accessed anywhere in the world via API calls.
Azure Tables: ...