Storage Resources

Storage Services Covered:

• Container (Blob) Storage (Like folders)

  • Unstructured data to be stored and accessed at a massive scale in block

  • Example: Needed for an application to support steaming

• Disk Storage

  • Ability to persistently store and access data from an attached virtual hard disk

  • Storing data that is not required to be accessed from outside the virtual machine

• File Storage

  • Offers fully managed cloud file shares that you can access from anywhere

  • Storing development tools needed to be accessed from many virtual machines

• Table Storage

  • The ability to store structured NoSQL data in the cloud providing a key/attribute store with a schema-less design

  • Example: Storing varying datasets such as user profile data

• Storage Tiers

Storage - one of the foundational technologies on which much is built

Container (Blob) & File Storage:

• The Azure Storage Account

• General Purpose v2 (gpv2) is the most common type

  • Blobs

  • Tables

  • Queues

  • Files

• Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

  • Cheapest type of storage

  • Pay Per GB (~1.8 Cents per GB)

Many, Many Options:

• Access tiers

  • Hot

  • Cold

  • Archive (More like cold storage, but cheaper and costs more and takes longer to access files)

• Performance tiers - Standard or Premium

• Location (Impacts the pricing)

• Redundancy / Replication (Backup of the file in another region)

• Fail-over Options

Disk Storage:

• Azure Virtual Machine Disks

• Managed Disks (If you use all of it or none of it, you pay the same)

• Reserve capacity in advanced (Pay for reservation)

• Optimized to virtual hard disks