Configuring Blob Storage

We have talked a lot about infrastructure in Azure, covering topics such as Azure Virtual Machines, (VMs), virtual networks (VNets), load balancing, and disks. That knowledge will help you build and manage solutions based on Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) services in Azure. This time, we’ll focus on a slightly different type of service – a managed storage solution for data called Azure Blob Storage.

Information presented in this chapter will enable you to explore architecture that requires less typical administrative work (such as managing the OS, updates, and software) and focuses more on providing business value thanks to a much easier infrastructure setup and smaller cognitive load.

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

• Exploring storage accounts, containers, and Binary Large Objects (blobs)
• Configuring access tiers in Blob Storage
• Configuring lifecycle and replication in Blob Storage...