Azure Storage design
Azure offers secure, highly available, and scalable storage options. These services can provide the following:
- Blob storage: Azure Blob Storage can store files for streaming or application content delivery. It can also be used to implement big data analytics solutions. Files can be stored in three different modes:
- Hot: For frequently accessed files. Files are always available and ready to be accessed.
- Cool: For less frequently accessed files. This tier has lower pricing than the hot tier, slower read times, and higher access costs. Data in this tier needs to be stored for at least 30 days.
- Cold: The next level down for less frequently accessed files, after the cool tier. This tier has lower pricing than the cool tier, slower read times, and higher access costs, and data needs to be stored for at least 90 days.
- Archive: The slowest and lowest cost tier for blob storage. Data needs to be stored for 180 days, where files are rarely accessed. This has the slowest...
