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Azure Storage Account

It's a big service designed for storage in Azure
Highly scalable (up to petabytes of data)
Highly durable
It contains the following services
Azure Blob Storage
- Used to store any kind type of data (unstructured data)
- Three storage tiers
  - Hot: frequently accessed data
  - Cool
    - Infrequently accessed data (lower availability and high durability)
    - Useful to store older versions and backups of applications
  - Archive: rarely accessed data
Azure Queue Storage
- Store small pieces of data (messages)
- Designed for scalable asynchronous processing
Azure Table Storage
- Store semi-structured data
Azure File Storage
- Similar to Blob Storage
- In case of file we access Shares (in Blob we access containers)
- Accessed via shared drive protocols
- Designed to extend on-premise file shares or implement lift-and-shift scenarios
Azure Disk Storage
- Disk emulation in the cloud
- Persistent storage for virtual machines
- Different
  - Sizes
  - Types (SSD, HDD)
  - Performance tiers
- Disk can be undamaged or managed

Replication