Different Azure Storage services

Azure Storage is consists of four different services:

  • Table Storage
  • Queue Storage
  • Blob Storage
  • Azure Files

They all serve different purposes and offer different capabilities and limits. While their names are self-explanatory, you will see that each is a completely different service, and though they can be used in connection with each other, they require a different set of skills to be able to do this efficiently, and you need to use best practices. Additionally, Azure Storage offers an additional service called disk storage, which is a feature used by virtual machines. Because of that, it will not be covered in this book. Nonetheless, you can find a link to documentation in the Further reading section. ...

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