Azure Storage Flashcards
Azure Data Box
Physical migration service with 80 terabytes of storage.
AzCopy
a command-line utility that you can use to copy blobs or files to or from your storage account.
Azure Storage Explorer
standalone app that provides a graphical interface to manage files and blobs in your Azure Storage Account. It works on Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems and uses AzCopy on the backend to perform all of the file and blob management tasks.
Azure File Sync
Azure File Sync is a tool that lets you centralize your file shares in Azure Files and keep the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of a Windows file server
Azure Blobs
A massively scalable object store for text and binary data. Also includes support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage Gen2.
Blob storage tiers
Hot access tier: Optimized for storing data that is accessed frequently (for example, images for your website).
Cool access tier: Optimized for data that is infrequently accessed and stored for at least 30 days (for example, invoices for your customers).
Cold access tier: Optimized for storing data that is infrequently accessed and stored for at least 90 days.
Archive access tier: Appropriate for data that is rarely accessed and stored for at least 180 days, with flexible latency requirements (for example, long-term backups).
Azure Files
Managed file shares for cloud or on-premises deployments.
Azure File storage offers fully managed file shares in the cloud that are accessible via the industry standard Server Message Block (SMB) or Network File System (NFS) protocols.
Azure Queues
Azure Queue storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages. Once stored, you can access the messages from anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS.
Azure Disks
block-level storage volumes managed by Azure for use with Azure VMs. Conceptually, they’re the same as a physical disk, but they’re virtualized
Azure Tables
stores large amounts of structured data. Azure tables are a NoSQL datastore that accepts authenticated calls from inside and outside the Azure cloud. This enables you to use Azure tables to build your hybrid or multicloud solution and have your data always available. Azure tables are ideal for storing structured, non-relational data.
Locally redundant storage (LRS)
replicates your data three times within a single data center in the primary region. LRS provides at least 11 nines of durability
Zone redundant storage (ZRS)
replicates your Azure Storage data synchronously across three Azure availability zones in the primary region. ZRS offers durability for Azure Storage data objects of at least 12 nines
With ZRS, your data is still accessible for both read and write operations even if a zone becomes unavailable
Geo redundant storage (GRS)
copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the primary region using LRS. It then copies your data asynchronously to a single physical location in the secondary region (the region pair) using LRS. GRS offers durability for Azure Storage data objects of at least 16 nines
Geo zone redundant storage
copied across three Azure availability zones in the primary region (similar to ZRS) and is also replicated to a secondary geographic region, using LRS, for protection from regional disasters. 16 nines
