Microsoft Azure Storage Account
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A Microsoft Azure Storage Account is a storage management unit within Microsoft Azure that contains all Azure Storage data objects (blobs, files, queues, and tables).
- Context:
- It can provide a unique Storage Namespace.
- It can be accessed worldwide over HTTP or HTTPS, ensuring global reachability.
- It offers different types of storage accounts for various purposes:
- General Purpose v2: Recommended for most scenarios.
- Premium Block Blobs: Suitable for high transactions, smaller objects, low latency.
- Premium File Shares: For high performance and enterprise applications.
- Premium Page Blobs: Exclusively for page blobs.
- It can enforce unique naming conventions, with names 3-24 characters long, using lowercase letters and numbers only.
- It can construct endpoints from the account name and service, such as https://account.blob.core.windows.net.
- It can encrypt data at rest by default, ensuring data security.
- It can have a billing structure based on region, account type, capacity used, redundancy, transactions, and data egress.
- It can allow migration between resource groups, subscriptions, and regions, and upgrading from v1 to v2 (non-reversible).
- It can adheres to certain limits on the number of accounts per region, capacity, and throughput, with possibilities to increase limits upon request.
- It can be accessed by a MS Azure Storage Explorer App.
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- Example(s):
- Azure Storage Account, General Purpose v2: A storage account used for a wide range of scenarios.
- Azure Storage Account, Premium Block Blobs: A storage account for applications needing low-latency access.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- Google Cloud Storage.
- A local file system on a personal computer.
- An on-premises database server.
- See: Azure Resource, Azure Resource Group, Cloud Storage, Data Encryption, Azure Region.
References
2023
- [Azure Storage Account Overview](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-account-overview)
- QUOTE: An Azure Storage Account contains all of your Azure Storage data objects: blobs, files, queues, and tables. The storage account provides a unique namespace for your Azure Storage data that's accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Data in your storage account is durable and highly available, secure, and massively scalable.