Azure Storage

Azure Storage products offer secure and scalable cloud and hybrid data storage services to businesses. Review technical documentation and resources to choose, implement, and optimize the right Azure Storage solution for your data. Options include object, file, disk, queue, and table Storage. There are also services for hybrid storage solutions, and services to transfer, share, and back up data.

Azure Storage data services: The Azure Storage platform includes the following data services:

• Azure Blob Storage: A massively scalable object store for text and binary data. Also includes support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage Gen2.
• Azure Files: Managed file shares for cloud or on-premises deployments.
• Azure Elastic SAN (preview): A fully integrated solution that simplifies deploying, scaling, managing, and configuring a SAN in Azure.
• Azure Queues: A messaging store for reliable messaging between application components.
• Azure Tables: A NoSQL store for schemaless storage of structured data.
• Azure managed Disks: Block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs.

Each service is accessed through a storage account with a unique address.

Additionally, Azure provides the following specialized storage:

• Azure NetApp Files: Enterprise files storage, powered by NetApp: makes it easy for enterprise line-of-business (LOB) and storage professionals to migrate and run complex, file-based applications with no code change. Azure NetApp Files is managed via NetApp accounts and can be accessed via NFS, SMB and dual-protocol volumes.