Chapter 3
Managing Storage in Azure
IN THIS CHAPTER
Differentiating among storage data types
Creating and using a storage account
Deciding where to store VM disks
Laying the foundation for data backups
Storage is an example of a universal service in the Microsoft Azure Cloud. Regardless of what kind of workload you’re running — virtual machines (VMs), app service, functions, machine learning, or whatever — you’re likely to require persistent object storage. By the end of this chapter, you’ll have a solid grasp of the Azure storage account: what it is, how it works, how to deploy it, and how to store and retrieve different data types.
Understanding Azure Storage Data Types
The Azure storage account represents a multipurpose container resource that provides highly available, persistent storage for three primary data types: unstructured, semistructured, and structured.
Unstructured data
Unstructured data is data that has no schema enforcing it. Think of binary large objects (blobs) as you would files, virtual hard drives, document files, and media files. All these objects are file-storage ...
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