May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
518 pages
10h 6m
English
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Blob Storage account
A general purpose Storage account provides entrance to Azure Storage services such as Tables, Queues, Files, Blobs, and Azure virtual machine disks, combined under a single account. The two performance tiers are:
- Standard storage performance tier: The standard storage performance tier permits the customer to file Tables, Queues, Files, Blobs, and Azure virtual machine disks
- Premium storage performance tier: This currently exclusively supports Azure virtual machine disks
To store unstructured data as Blobs (objects), a Blob Storage account is available in Azure Storage. Blob storage shares characteristics with existing general purpose Storage accounts. Similar are the durability, availability, scalability, and performance ...