Learning Microsoft Azure Storage

Why Azure Storage?

There are many reasons for using Azure Storage which will be covered throughout this book. Below is a sneak peak of a couple of them:

• Global presence: You can host your storage wherever you want in the available Azure regions, allowing you to provide applications close to your user base.
• Redundancy and recovery: As mentioned earlier in this chapter, Azure has a global presence which can be leveraged to maintain storage availability using data replication even if a disaster occurs in a region, which will be covered later in this chapter.
• Many flavors: Azure Storage has many flavors, based on resiliency, durability, connectivity, performance, and so on, which can be used according to your needs in different scenarios. This ...