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. One of these services for supporting your storage needs is Azure storage accounts. Azure has created four core types of services as part of Azure storage accounts: Blob Storage, Azure Files, Queue Storage, and Tables Storage. All these services can be consumed from a Standard general-purpose v2 (Standard GPv2) storage account, and some can be consumed individually as the Premium variations (such as Azure Files and Blob Storage), where more performance is required. 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 figure illustrates the different storage services associated with a storage account. It illustrates the storage accounts split by the various...