Exploring Azure Storage Accounts

Azure Blob Storage is the most important part of an Azure storage account and is one of the oldest existing Azure services. Back when the Azure classic services were released to customers, only a couple of services existed: VMs and storage to persist VM disks. Originally, Azure Storage was set up to persist large files that were gigabytes in size. Now, most VM disks have already moved to managed disks but a storage account is still used to persist files, for example, backups, logs, and performance metrics.

Modern Azure storage accounts can persist semi-structured data as JSON files in blobs. Blobs are also good for persisting binary or unstructured data such as media, documents, or encrypted content. Azure storage accounts provide enormous resiliency, high availability and redundancy, and strong security. Moreover, they are quite easy to connect and operate from code. You’ll probably have a hard time finding a modern cloud solution that does...