Azure Storage Services - Part 1
I n this article and subsequent a few articles, will talk about some important objects of Azure Storage Service and it's utility. This is actually kind of learning hand book. Azure Storage Services Microsoft Azure Storage is a managed service that provides durable, secure, and salable storage in the cloud. A single Azure subscription can host up to 200 storage accounts, each of which can hold 500 TB of data. If you have a business case, you can talk to the Azure Storage team and get approval for up to 250 storage accounts in a subscription, which pushes your max storage up to 125 Petabytes! Azure data services: Azure storage includes four types of data: Blobs: A massively scalable object store for text and binary data. Files: Managed file shares for cloud or on-premises deployments. Queues: A messaging store for reliable messaging between application components. Tables: A NoSQL store for schemaless storage of structured Blob storage : Is ...