Azure offers a variety of types of storage accounts that can be used to store all sorts of files in Azure. You can store files, documents, and datasets, but also blobs and Virtual Hard Disks (VHDs). There is even a type of storage account for archiving, specifically. In the next section, we are going to look at the different types of storage accounts, and storage account replication types, that Azure has to offer.
Storage account types
Azure Storage offers three different account types, which can be used for blob, table, file, and queue storage.
General-purpose v1 (GPv1)
The General-Purpose v1 (GPv1) storage account is the oldest type of storage account. It offers storage for page blobs, block blobs, files, queues, and tables, but it is not the most cost-effective storage account type. It is the only storage account type that can be used for the classic deployment model. It doesn't support the latest features, such as access tiers.