A general-purpose storage account provides entrance to Azure Storage services such as tables, queues, files, blobs, and Azure virtual machine disks, combined under a single account. The two performance tiers are as follows:
- Standard storage performance tier: The standard storage performance tier permits the customer to file tables, queues, files, blobs, and Azure virtual machine disks
- Premium storage performance tier: This currently exclusively supports Azure virtual machine disks
To store unstructured data as Blobs (objects), a Blob storage account is available in Azure Storage. Blob storage shares characteristics with existing general-purpose storage accounts. Similar to this are the durability, availability, scalability, and performance features. Microsoft recommends using Blob storage accounts for applications requiring entirely block or append Blob storage.
Blob storage accounts expose the Access Tier attribute, which can be specified in the process of...