An Overview of the Azure Storage
                     An Overview of the Azure Storage
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Selecting the right storage solution is a crucial part of any 
project. Storage accounts are one of the most robust storage 
solutions in Azure. It is managed by Microsoft and provides 
an enormous file system service for the cloud, a messaging 
store for reliable messaging, a scalable object store for data 
objects, and a NoSQL store. It is durable because Microsoft 
manages all the hardware failures, along with being secure 
because the entire data is encrypted. It is also scalable 
because it can handle data of sizes up to petabytes and is 
accessible because there’s a bunch of APIs and SDKs, 
allowing you to connect to Azure Storage.
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Azure Storage Account Services
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1. Blob Storage: Azure Blob storage is a highly scalable service that is used for text 
and binary data. It is decapsulated into containers, and each container includes several 
files. It is perfect for:
Documents and Image serving directly to a browser
Distributed access storage of files
Audio and Video streaming
Data storage for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving
Data storage for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service
2. File Storage: This service manages file shares for cloud or on-premises 
deployments. It is decapsulated into shares, and each share comprises files and folders. It 
is for situations where you need file shares and where you will use the ‘Lift and Shift’ 
scenario. 
3. Queue Storage: This is a middleware service because it delivers cross-service 
communication from messaging and events. It is decapsulated into queues, and each 
queue incorporates multiple messages. It is a messaging store for well-founded messaging 
between components of an application. 
4. Table Storage: This is the most simple and basic NoSQL database in a Cloud, but it 
is also highly scalable like other services. It is decapsulated into tables, and each table 
incorporates rows of data. It is a NoSQL store for schema-less storage of structured data.
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5. General-purpose v2 Accounts: This is a primary storage account that carries 
the updated Azure Storage characteristics and consolidates the entire functionality of 
general-purpose v1 and Blob storage accounts. It is recommended for scenarios using 
Azure Storage because it provides the lowest per-gigabyte capacity prices. These 
accounts offer multiple access tiers for storing data based on your usage patterns. It 
supports Blobs, Data Lake Gen2, Files, Disks, Queues, and Tables.
6. General-purpose v1 Accounts: This is a legacy account type that grants 
admittance to all Azure Storage services but does not have the latest features or the 
lowest per-gigabyte capacity prices. It is recommended to use general-purpose v1 
accounts when your applications demand the Azure classic deployment model or 
transaction-intensive applications. You can use significant geo-replication bandwidth but 
don’t need a large capacity, or you use an earlier version of the 
Storage Services REST API that was used before 2014-02-14 or a client library with a 
version lower than 4.x. These storage accounts support Blobs, Files, Disks, Queues, and 
Tables.
7. Block Blob Storage Accounts: This is a specialized storage account in the 
premium performance tier for stockpiling unstructured object data as block blobs or 
append blobs and provide low, consistent latency and higher transaction rates. It is 
recommended for scenarios with high transaction rates or scenarios that use smaller 
objects or require consistently low storage latency. These storage accounts do not 
support tiering to hot, cool, or archive access tiers, page blobs, tables, or queues.
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8. File Storage Accounts: This is a specialized files-only 
storage account with premium performance characteristics used to 
store and create premium file shares. It is recommended for 
enterprise or high-performance scale applications as it offers unique 
performance dedicated characteristics such as IOPS bursting. These 
storage accounts support files but do not block blobs, append blobs, 
page blobs, tables, or queues.
9. Blob storage Accounts: This is a legacy Blob-only storage 
account that is an object storage solution for the cloud. It is 
enhanced for storing extensive amounts of unstructured data. Data 
that doesn’t cohere to a particular data model or definition, such as 
text or binary data, is referred to as unstructured data.
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Data Redundancy in Azure Storage
There are multiple copies of your data replicated in Azure storage. The options 
include:
Locally-redundant storage (LRS)
Zone-redundant storage (ZRS)
Geo-redundant storage (GRS)
Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
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