Understanding Azure storage accounts
Azure offers a variety of services that can be utilized for storage; these can vary from database options to messaging systems, to files. Azure has identified four core types of services and integrated these into a single service named Azure Storage. These are identified as Azure Blobs, Azure Files, Azure Queues, and Azure Tables under an Azure storage account. A storage account may contain several data services in a combination of the ones described previously and stored collectively in a grouped service. Various types of data—such as files, documents, datasets, blobs, and virtual hard disks (VHDs)—can be stored in the storage account, and most will be accommodated by the defined structure. The following screenshot illustrates the different storage services associated with a storage account:
Now that you have seen how storage services are provided within...