Azure cloud data storage
During the launch of Azure Cloud Shell in the previous chapter, you may have noticed that we created an Azure storage account before the Azure Cloud Shell launch. An Azure storage account provides unique storage space for your Azure cloud data, accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. When an Azure storage account is created, the following Azure storage data objects are created: blobs, files, queues, and tables, in an all-in-one fashion:
- Azure blobs are blob storage, which is an object storage like AWS S3 or Google GCS
- Azure files permit you to manage file-sharing in the cloud – shareable to Azure VMs and on-prem VMs
- Azure queue storage is a cloud service similar to AWS Simple Queue Service (SQS),for storing large numbers of messages
- Azure table storage stores structured NoSQL cloud data, with a key/attribute store and a schema-less design
An Azure storage account provides all these storage and data services...