Azure Files was briefly covered in Chapter 4, Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts. In this chapter, we are going to create and configure an Azure file share.
With Azure Files, you can create file shares in the cloud. You can access your files using the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which is an industry standard that can be used on Linux, Windows, and macOS devices. Azure Files can also be mounted as if it is a local drive on these same devices, and they can be cached for fast access on Windows Server using Azure File Sync.
In the following section, we are going to create an Azure file share from the Azure portal.
