Exploring Azure Queue Storage

You have already learned a lot about Azure Storage from Chapter 6, Developing Solutions That Use Azure Blob Storage. The following paragraph will revise the topics you have already learned and also uncover new details about the queue service.

Azure Storage is one of the oldest services available in Azure, initially designed for storing files and blobs. Nowadays, Azure Storage supports additional services, such as Azure Table (a NoSQL database) and Azure Queue Storage (for simple messaging). Only the Standard storage tier supports these services and persists data in geographically separated regions. The service is based on Microsoft-managed infrastructure that is auto-scaled, on-demand, and recognized as serverless. All the hosted services on the Azure Storage platform support HTTPS RESTful interfaces for communication within Azure and on-premises solutions. Because of their high reliability, the services are commonly used within Azure solutions for...