Microsoft Azure: Planning, Deploying, and Managing the Cloud

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14. Azure Storage

Julian Soh¹  , Marshall Copeland², Anthony Puca³ and Micheleen Harris¹

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Washington, WA, USA

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Texas, TX, USA

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Colorado, CO, USA

 

Over the years, the two foundational components that define Azure as a hyperscale cloud continue to be unmentioned pillars: compute and storage. Compute and storage are the foundational pillars for every private and public cloud. Infrastructure as a service is pretty much about compute and storage. We focused on compute in Chapter 2, and in this chapter, we dedicate time to cloud-based storage.

Cloud-based storage is not as ground-shaking and exciting as emerging ...