Introduction to Azure Storage services

This section looks at the available Storage services in Azure. We will start this chapter by looking at various definitions and concepts to help set a baseline and foundation of knowledge that you can build from.

Storage types

The following storage types are available in Azure:

• Files: This provides the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which provides fully managed, highly available serverless network file shares. These traditional mapped drives can be communicated using port 445 and the SMB 3.x protocol.
• Binary large object (Blob): This provides cost-effective massive scale-out unstructured data storage. The following three blob types are available:
  • Page Blob: Used to store random access data objects, such as VM disks
  • Block Blob: Used to store ordered data objects, such as backups
  • Append Blob: Used to store consecutively added data objects, such as log files
• Table: This provides a data store for non-relational (NoSQL) structured...