Azure offers a variety of types of storage accounts that can be used to store all sorts of files in Azure. You can store files, documents, and datasets, but also blobs and virtual hard disks (VHDs). There is even a type of storage account for archiving, specifically. In the next section, we are going to look at the different types of storage accounts, and storage account replication types, that Azure has to offer.
Azure storage accounts
Storage account types
Azure storage offers three different account types, which can be used for blob, table, file, and queue storage.
