Azure Storage

Azure storage is the Microsoft cloud storage solution for modern data storage solution.

Core storage services

• Azure Blob
• Azure File
• Azure Table
• Azure Queue
• Azure Disk

Selecting storage account base on your requirement

Storage account use cases:

Azure Blobs:

• Use when your application support streaming and random access scenarios

• if you want to be able to access your application data from anywhere.

• If you want to build enterprise data lake on azure platform & perform bis data analytics.

Azure Files:

• In case of the “lift and shift” application to cloud.

• If you use file share or replace the on-premises file servers.

• Want to access any tool or data from the multiple VMs.

Azure Tables:

• To store the structured NoSQL data in cloud.

• If you want to storage the flexible database then table storage is the goof option.

Azure Queues:

• Queues allow for the asynchronous message queuing between application components.

Azure Disks:

• If you want to data to be persistently stored and accessed from an attached virtual hard disk.
• It will helpful during the life and shift.

Deep dive Azure Blob storage

Features:

• It’s Microsoft object storage solution for the cloud.
• You can store the images and Documents to browse.
• In azure blob storage you can store the files for the distributed access.
• You can also stores the videos and audios in blob storage.
• You can also utilize the blob storage for the backup and restore solutions so it will use to the any disaster recovery.

How to access the blob storage?

• You can access the content of the blob storage from anywhere over the HTTPS & HTTPS protocol.
• You application or users can access the blob over;
  • URL’s
  • Azure Storage REST API’s
  • Azure CLI
  • Azure storage client library (i.e. .Net, Node.js, Pythone,PHP and Ruby)

Type of Blobs

• Blocks blob
  
  • Blocks blob use to store Text and Binary data.
  • It is made up of the blocks and data it can be manage individually.

• Append Blobs
  
  • Appen blob is also made up of the blocks blob but it’s used the for the append operations.
  • EX- To store the system logs so that the every time log can get recorded in the file with the append way.

To sore the application logs or else automatization logs.

• Page Blobs
  
  • In page blobs you can store the random access files up to 8TB.
  • Page blobs you can store the VHD file and use that file as disk to the Azure VM.

Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)

Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS)

Read-Only GRS (RA-GRS)

Read-Only GZRS (RA-GZRS)