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Explore Azure Storage services (3) - Coggle Diagram
Explore Azure Storage services
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To begin using Azure Storage, you first create an Azure Storage account to store your data objects.
Disk storage fundamentals
Disk Storage provides disks for Azure virtual machines. Applications and other services can access and use as these disks as needed, similar to how they would in on-premises scenarios. Disk Storage allows data to be persistently stored and accessed from an attached virtual hard disk.
Azure Blob storage fundamentals
Azure Blob Storage is an object storage solution for the cloud. It can store massive amounts of data, such as text or binary data
Serving images or documents directly to a browser.
Storing files for distributed access.
Streaming video and audio.
Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving.
Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.
Storing up to 8 TB of data for virtual machines.
You store blobs in containers, which helps you organize your blobs depending on your business needs.
Azure Files fundamentals
Many on-premises applications use file shares.
Store configuration files on a file share and access them from multiple VMs
Write data to a file share, and process or analyze the data later.
One thing that distinguishes Azure Files from files on a corporate file share is that you can access the files from anywhere in the world, by using a URL that points to the file. You can also use Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens to allow access to a private asset for a specific amount of time.
Understanding Blob access tiers
Hot access tier: Optimized for storing data that is accessed frequently (for example, images for your website).
Cool access tier: Optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and stored for at least 30 days (for example, invoices for your customers).
Archive access tier: Appropriate for data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days,
with flexible latency requirements (for example, long-term backups).
The following considerations apply to the different access tiers:
Only the hot and cool access tiers can be set at the account level. The archive access tier isn't available at the account level.
Hot, cool, and archive tiers can be set at the blob level, during upload or after upload.
Data in the cool access tier can tolerate slightly lower availability, but still requires high durability, retrieval latency, and throughput characteristics similar to hot data. For cool data, a slightly lower availability service-level agreement (SLA) and higher access costs compared to hot data are acceptable trade-offs for lower storage costs.
Archive storage stores data offline and offers the lowest storage costs, but also the highest costs to rehydrate and access data.