Azure Storage Services

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Extension of Azure Storage Overview
Related to Azure Storage Account

  1. Blob
  2. FileShares
  3. Queues
  4. Table
  5. Disks

Blob

We have:

blockpageappendcontainerblob

Uses 3 things to store stuff:

  1. Storage account
  2. Containers in storage account\
  3. Blobs
accountcontainerblobXYZpicturesmoviesabc.pngabc2.pingabc3.pngxyz.png

Types

  • Block (ADLSGen2 (hierarchical namespace)(NFS/SFTP))
    • By default these are flat (might show folders etc, but are not actually folders)/ but we can enable hierarchical namespace
  • Page (Random - For OS/VM data disks,etc.)
  • Append (for logs)

Table

Entities-Key:ValueTable

Queue

MessagesQueue
  • Used for some event driven things.
    Like: App writes to blob. It also puts a message in queue. A function reads the message in queue, then reads from the blob and does whatever
ImageMessageEventReadBlobAppBlobQueueFunction
  • Not guaranteed fifo

Files

FoldersAndFilesShare-SMBorNFSFiles

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