May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
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Azure Storage services
As previously mentioned, the difference between the Blob storage and the general purpose storage is to be found in the purpose of usage. While the Blob storage stores unstructured data, the general purpose account stores structured data. Azure differentiates between four types of storage: Blob, Queue, Table, and File storage. It's important to understand the scopes, in order to be able to decide for a certain type of storage.