Benefits and Usage of Storage Accounts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8BrfsxLSx8&list=PLlVtbbG169nED0_vMEniWBQjSoxTsBYS3&index=19

Storage accounts live in a specific region

• You should always consider the region in where a storage account is placed geographically

  • Put it in a region where the compute services are going to be that will leverage the storage account

• Standard is normally a general purpose v2

  • It has LRS, ZRS, GRS, GZRS

    • You can also utilize read secondaries for certain file types like Blob

• Premium (low latency) could be Block Blob, Page Blob, or Files and it requires you to choose one of them

  • It has LRS and ZRS

Redundancy

• LRS - Locally redundant storage has 3 copies of the data in the same building

• ZRS - Zone redundant storage has 3 copies over the 3 different AZs

• GRS - Geo redundant storage has 3 copies in one building of region 1 and 3 copies in one building of region 2

• GZRS - Geo Zone redundant storage has 3 copies in region 1 in 3 separate buildings and 3 copies in region 2 in 3 separate buildings

Services

• Blob - unstructured piece of data

  • Block - made up of blocks and lives in a container

    • access tiers: hot, cool, archive

  • ADLS Gen 2

  • Page - made up of pages and are great for random read/writes

  • Append - constantly adding to the end of something such as a log file

  • Files - SMB/NFS

    • Azure File Sync establishes a relationship to Azure to sync files up to Azure with on-premises windows based file servers

  • Queues - Small pieces of data that are first in first out (FIFO)

  • Tables - Schemaless key-value pairs