In Azure, we have different types of data or storage services:
- Blob storage: An optimized storage object, to store massive amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data. It's often used to make the data available for other resources, for instance, to store VHD files that can be used to create virtual disks. Another use case is to use it as storage for audio and video files. Making the blob publicly accessible, it's even possible to stream the data.
- Azure Files: CIFS shares hosted files in Azure.
- Azure Queue storage: Passing messages from one resource to another, especially for serverless services such as Azure Web App and Functions. It can also be used to create a backlog of work to process asynchronously.
- Table storage: This is for the Azure CosmoDB service.
- Disk storage: This is for managed and unmanaged disks.
In this chapter, I will...
