Explore Azure Storage services
linking:: AZ-900, Azure-Services
A storage account provides a unique namespace for your Azure Storage data, that’s accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Data in this account is secure, highly available, durable, and massively scalable.
Disk storage fundamentals
- Stores disks
- Comes in SSDs or HDDs, varying performance
Blob storage fundamentals
- Unstructured
- Everything is blobs, don’t have to worry about type
Files fundamentals
- Mounted
- Store files or config, able to access from multiple VMs
- Can use SAS URI to access via web
Understand Blob access tiers
- Hot
- Cool (> 30 days)
- Archive (> 180 days)
Only the hot and cool access tiers can be set at the account level. The archive access tier isn’t available at the account level. Hot, cool, and archive tiers can be set at the blob level, during upload or after upload.