Microsoft Azure Storage
Microsoft Azure Storage is one of the main components of Microsoft Azure. It offers cloud storage in a scalable and redundant way. It can store petabytes of data of any kind: files, logs, images, videos, and so on. At the same time, Microsoft Azure Storage is flexible and its load balancing system can easily handle traffic of any volume. Microsoft Azure Storage is a powerful option when you need reliable data storage that can be consumed from every platform and is accessible 24/7.
Microsoft Azure Storage provides three options for redundancy for its services:
Locally Redundant Storage (LRS): All data in the storage account replicates synchronously to three different storage nodes within the primary region that was chosen when creating the storage account.
Geo Redundant Storage (GRS, the default option): All data in the storage account replicates synchronously within the primary region. All data also replicates asynchronously to a secondary region (hundreds of miles...