Introduction to Azure Storage services
This section looks at the available Storage services in Azure. We will start this chapter by looking at various definitions and concepts to help set a baseline and foundation of knowledge that you can build from.
Storage types
The following storage types are available in Azure:
- Files: This provides the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol, which provides fully managed, highly available serverless network file shares. These traditional mapped drives can be communicated using port
445
and the SMB 3.x protocol. - Binary large object (Blob): This provides cost-effective massive scale-out unstructured data storage. The following three blob types are available:
- Table: This provides a data store for non-relational (NoSQL) structured...