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Different types of storage account

Azure Storage offers three different types of storage account:

General-purpose Standard: Supporting tables, blobs, files, and queues, and three different types of blob: block blobs, page blobs, and append blobs
General-purpose Premium: Limited to blobs only, and supporting page blobs
Blob storage with hot/cool access tiers: Limited to blobs only and supporting block blobs and append blobs

You will learn more about different kinds of blob in the next sections. The question, for now, is: what is the difference between the standard and premium accounts—besides pricing of course? You can define them as follows:

Standard: The most common choice with reasonable performance and support for all types of data. ...

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