Brief Overview of Azure Storage Accounts

Microsoft Azure Storage is a cloud service managed by Microsoft provisioning durable,scalable,redundant, highly available and secure storage at different zones worldwide more information can be found in the microsoft link below
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-in/azure/storage/

Types of Azure Storage
we have four types of storage in Azure at this moment of writing this blog.

1. Blob storage is an object storage solution for storing unstructured datadata e.g text files, document,images, videos, databases, backup data and archiving data,e.t.c,... it also supports tiers e.g. storing infrequently accessed files, archived files. This storage tiers set policies to move blobs within different storage tiers e.g. a soft delete like recycle bins and even hosting websites.

2. File Storage is an object storage solution that supports storage of unstructured data for different varieties of files. it uses the SMB protocol, it can attach to vms also for file sharing. it supports worldwide accessible, Active directory.

3. Table Storage it supports storing structured data,non relational data. it stores alot of field data and can be accessed frequently through the api

4. Queue Storage for storing and receiving messages. building asynchronous applications passing messages to different applications.

Types of Azure Storage account

1. General Purpose v1 Storage account type (GPv1): it supports the following services -

• Blob storage
• File storage
• Table Storage
• Queue Storage
  It does not support Blob Access Tiers. it supports deployment with the classic deployment and Resource Manager Deployment. it is slightly cheaper storage transaction costs. it can be converted from v1 to v2.

2. General Purpose v2 Storage account type (GPv2): this is an account type that supports all the available services. it is also the recommended choice from microsoft. it supports blob tiering, it has higher storage limit than V1 and also ingress speed for communicating out of Azure.

3. Blob Storage account type: this is an account type that only supports blob services. it supports Block blobs and Append Blobs type. it has a different tiers

• Hot tier: lower data access cost and higher data storage cost
• Cool tier: higher data access cost and lower data storage cost
• Archive tier: highest data access cost and the lowest data storage cost

Types of Blob Storage

• Block Blob it is used for storing data upto 4.77TB composed of 100MB blocks

• Append Blob it can only Append Blocks ideal for log and audit files. upto 195GB max file size

• Page Blob it is used for storing vhd files, 8TB max file size for frequent read/write operations. Standard/Premium Storage. it is only offered in the General Purpose account types

4. Block Blob Storage account type: this is an account type that support Blob storage. it allows storing block and append blobs on premium storage. providing better performance for scenarios on high transaction rates, smaller objects and lower storage latency. does not support access tiers

5. File Storage account type: this is an account type that supports file storage. it provides consistence high performance and low latency through the IOPS bursting feature.