Using Azure Storage in a solution

Most applications cannot work without a storage solution. This can be any kind of database—relational, document, file, or graph. Most of them require some skills to be able to configure and start working with them. For now, we have covered one storage solution available in Azure, namely Azure Cosmos DB, which is a serverless database, where the only thing needed was to set a correct throughput value. Of course, Azure offers much more in the way of storage services, of which the most common is Azure Storage. It is a PaaS cloud component (though some define it as serverless, mostly because of a lack of servers) which can be used in four different ways. In this chapter, we will cover all of them, so you will be familiar with their capabilities and features.