Azure Storage offers storage services that are enormously scalable, accessible, and durable. The storage services include storage structures for data objects, disks for virtual machines, message storage for messaging and communication, file storage for cloud-based and on-site file systems, and NoSQL storage.
Moreover, Azure Storage provides its customers with a unique namespace that is accessible from anywhere in the world using HTTPS protocol.
The Azure Storage platform is Microsoft's cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios. Azure Storage offers highly available, massively scalable, durable, and secure storage for a variety of data objects in the cloud.
Following are the benefits of using azure storage servives;
- Security
- Scalability
- Durability
- Accessibility
Storage account types
Azure offers two kinds of storage services to their customers;
1. Standard
The standard tier uses Hard drive disk(HDDs) to store the data.
2. Premium
Premium tier is best for services which requires low latency and high I/O performance such as transactional data processing. This used solid state drives(SSDs) for storing the data and are costlier than standard ones.
Creation
Go to the all resources and click on "+" button and select storage account(You may directly search storage account on the search bar).
In the wizard following are the tabs
a) Basic- Enter the account name/ region/ performance.
b) Advance- provide details for securing the accounts.
c) Networking- Enter the details of public and private IPs.
d) Data protection- Any deletion or modifications required.
e) Tag's- Classifications or categorisation.
f) Review+Create- Final review of the details/setting
entered/selected.
g) Click on create button to initiate the creation of the
storage account.
Access Tiers
Hot
This is optimised for storage data that is accessed
frequently.Cool
This is for storing data that is used or requires access at
least once in 30 days. The read+write cost is lesser compared
to Hot.Archive
This is for storing data that is occasionally accessed and
stored. This is cheapest and R/W is expensive. This requires
data to rehydrate before usage.
Following are the types of storage services;
Blob
Blob storage is optimised for storing a massive amount of
unstructured data, such as text or binary data. Azure blob
storage is fundamental for the entire Microsoft Azure
because many other Azure services will store the data
within a storage account, inside the blob storage, and act
upon that data. And every blob should be stored in a
container.
URL format: Blobs are addressable using the following URL format:
https://<storage-account>.blob.core.windows.net
for static blob storage
https://<storage-account>.web.core.windows.net
Tables
Azure Table storage is a cloud-based NoSQL datastore you
can use to store large amounts of structured, non-
relational data. Azure Table offers a schema-less design,
which enables you to store a collection of entities in one
table.
URL format: Tables are addressable using the following URL format:
https://<storage-account>.table.core.windows.net
Files
Azure file storage mainly can be used if we want to have a
shared drive between two servers or across users. In that
case, we will go for Azure file storage.
URL format: Files are addressable using the following URL format:
https://<storage-account>.file.core.windows.net
Queue
This service is designed to send and receive messages.
Azure Queue Storage is a service for storing large numbers
of messages. You access messages from anywhere in the world
via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS. A queue
message can be up to 64 KB in size. A queue may contain
millions of messages, up to the total capacity limit of a
storage account.
URL format: Queues are addressable using the following URL format:
https://<storage account>.queue.core.windows.net/<queue>
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