Azure Storage
Azure Storage is a scalable and secure cloud storage solution designed to handle various types of data with high reliability. It includes a number of data services optimized for use in particular scenarios and use cases.
Azure Blobs
Provides a highly scalable object store for text and binary data, with additional support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage Gen2. Can be accessed via HTTP/HTTPS, SFTP, or mounted using the Network File System (NFS) 3.0 protocol.
Is particularly suitable for:
- Responding with images or documents to web browser requests.
- Supporting distributed access to files.
- Streaming multimedia content.
- Preserving data for archiving, backing up, and recovery.
- Preserving data for analysis by services hosted both on-premises and in Azure.
Azure Files
Provides file sharing management for both cloud and on-premises use. Can be accessed using SMB, NFS protocols, or the REST API.
Azure Elastic SAN
An integrated system that makes deploying, scaling, managing, and configuring a SAN in Azure more straightforward.
Azure Queues
A reliable messaging store solution for component interaction within applications.
Azure Tables
NoSQL storage option supporting structured data with no schema constraints.
Azure managed Disks
Azure-based virtual machines block-level storage volumes.
Azure Container Storage
A container-native service providing volume management, deployment, and orchestration.
Azure NetApp Files
NetApp-powered enterprise file storage is designed to simplify the migration and operation of complex, file-based applications. Provides support for SMB, NFS, and dual-protocol volumes.