Describe Azure storage accounts
What is Azure storage?
Azure storage got different sub services. The main services are:
- Blob storage (Access images on a browser, for example, or store backups)
- File storage ()
- Disk storage (For VMs)
- Messaging storage (Queue storage)
- NoSQL storage (Table storage -> Key value pairs. Cheep)
Hot storage -> Frequently accessed data (Images for website) Cool storage -> Data that is accessed less frequently (at least 30 days, customer invoices for examle) Archive storage -> Data that is accessed rarely (at least 180 days, backups)
Redundancy types
The following redundancy options are available for Azure storage accounts:
- Locally redundant storage (LRS)
- Geo-redundant storage (GRS)
- Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
- Zone-redundant storage (ZRS)
- Geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS)
- Read-access geo-zone-redundant storage (RA-GZRS)
| Type | Supported Services | Redundancy options |
|---|---|---|
| Standard general-purpose v2 | Blob, Queue, Table and Azure files | LRS, GRS, RA-GRS, ZRS, GZRS, RA-GZRS |
| Premium block blob | Blob | LRS, ZRS |
| Premium file shares | Files | LRS, ZRS |
| Premium page blobs | Disk | LRS |
Endpoints of storage account
| Storage service | Endpoint |
|---|---|
| Blob | https://(storage-account-name).blob.core.windows.net |
| Data Lake Storage Gen2 | https://(storage-account-name).dfs.core.windows.net |
| File | https://(storage-account-name).file.core.windows.net |
| Queue | https://(storage-account-name).queue.core.windows.net |
| Table | https://(storage-account-name).table.core.windows.net |