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Published inJul 2021
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Brett Hargreaves
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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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Understanding storage types

When designing Azure solutions, at some point, you will be required to store data. Azure has several options for storing data, and the choice of which to use depends on several different factors.

This section will examine the various options and which option is best suited to which scenario.

First, we will take a high-level look at one of the most common non-database storage mechanisms – Azure Storage accounts.

Azure Storage accounts

Azure Storage accounts are the main form of managed data storage. They can store different types of data depending on how you configure them on initial creation.

When creating a storage account, you must choose an Account Kind – the options are General Purpose V2 (GPv2), General Purpose V1 (GPv1), Blob Storage, or File Storage.

Storage accounts are grouped into two performance tiers – Standard or Premium.

Performance tiers

To make sense of the options, we will first consider the performance...

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Published in: Jul 2021Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781800566934

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Brett Hargreaves

Brett Hargreaves is a principal Azure consultant for Iridium Consulting, who has worked with some of the world's biggest companies, helping them design and build cutting-edge solutions. With a career spanning infrastructure, development, consulting, and architecture, he's been involved in projects covering the entire solution stack using Microsoft technologies. He loves passing on his knowledge to others through books, blogging, and his online training courses.
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