From the course: Azure: Understanding the Big Picture
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A quick tour of Azure Storage - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Azure: Understanding the Big Picture
A quick tour of Azure Storage
- [Presenter] Azure has a variety of services that are optimized for storing data in the cloud. Data comes in many forms and formats, so the services cater to these various shapes. Databases are one type of storage. I'll wager it's one of the first solutions that comes to your mind when you think about storing data. That's the topic for another chapter. We're looking at a category called Azure Storage in this chapter. There are services for file storage and file backup. There are others for long-term archival data. The Azure Storage account is the container for your data. You must have at least one Storage account. Within the Storage account, you can store various types of data, blob, file, queue, table, and disk. You'll configure one or more of these types within the Storage account. Each Storage service is optimized for a specific usage scenario. Blob storage provides some client libraries and a REST interface that allow unstructured data to be stored and accessed at a massive…
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