Azure Storage Account
Cloud storage solution, IaaS. It's an entry point to access data over HTTP or HTTPS.
Using storage accounts, data is secure, highly available, durable, and scalable.
You can even use Azure Storage publish static content (see [[static-website-hosting-with-azure-storage]]).
You can use it to create a Virtual Machine with consistent disks and storage.
You create a Storage Account in a specific region (to enable redundancy).
Azure Storage Account allows you to use:
You can also use [[hierarchical-namespaces]].
Storage Account Tiers
There are several tiers, each of them with specific usage and supported services.
Standard general-purpose v2
It's the type best for blobs, file shares, queues, and tables.
Recommended for the most basic scenarios.
Supported services:
It supports all the redundancy options:
- Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) (see :[[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)]])
- Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) (see: [[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS)]])
- Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) (see: [[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS)]])
- Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) (see: [[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS)]])
- Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS) (see:[[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS)]])
- Read-Access Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (RA-GZRS) (see: [[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Read-Access Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (RA-GZRS)]])
Premium block blobs
Premium storage for [[azure-blob-storage-block-blobs]] and [[azure-blob-storage-append-blobs]].
Recommended for scenarios with high transaction rates or that use smaller objects or require consistently low storage latency.
It is available only for [[azure-blob-storage]].
It supports:
- Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) (see :[[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)]])
- Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) (see: [[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS)]])
Premium file shares
For file shares only.
Recommended for enterprise or high-performance scale applications.
Is available only for [[azure-file-storage]].
It supports:
- Locally Redundant Storage (LRS) (see :[[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)]])
- Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS) (see: [[azure-storage-redundancy-types#Zone-Redundant Storage (ZRS)]])
Premium page blobs
For [[azure-blob-storage-page-blobs]] only.
It supports only Locally Redundant Storage (LRS)