3 General storage with Azure Storage accounts

This chapter covers

  • Creating a storage service

  • Setting up an Azure Storage Blob Storage

  • Configuring file access in Blob Storage

In the previous chapter you explored some services provided by Microsoft Azure: Event Hubs, Stream Analytics, Data Lake, Data Lake Analytics, and SQL Database. You saw at a high level how these services can work together to create an analytics system.

This chapter begins showing you how to design and set up these services to lay the foundation of an analytics system. The first step is learning how to implement a storage system that is secure and scalable using Azure Storage accounts.

Durable storage serves both input and output for your analytics system. You can ...

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