Storage Types

 BLOB STORAGE:

Blob storage: Block Blob, Page and Append blob (types)

Block- Files, images and vids etc

Page - VM Disks

Append - high I/O operation like logging

Azure Blob storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data.

Blob storage is ideal for:

• Serving images or documents directly to a browser.

• Storing files for distributed access.

• Streaming video and audio.

• Storing data for backup and restore, disaster recovery, and archiving.

• Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.

Objects in Blob storage can be accessed from anywhere in the world via HTTP or HTTPS. Users or client applications can access blobs via URLs, the Azure Storage REST API, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or an Azure Storage client library.

AZURE FILES:

• Azure Files enables you to set up highly available network file shares that can be accessed by using the standard Server Message Block (SMB) protocol. That means that multiple VMs can share the same files with both read and write access. You can also read the files using the REST interface or the storage client libraries.
•  File shares can be used for many common scenarios:
• Many on-premises applications use file shares. This feature makes it easier to migrate those applications that share data to Azure. If you mount the file share to the same drive letter that the on-premises application uses, the part of your application that accesses the file share should work with minimal, if any, changes.
•  Configuration files can be stored on a file share and accessed from multiple VMs. Tools and utilities used by multiple developers in a group can be stored on a file share, ensuring that everybody can find them, and that they use the same version.
• Resource logs, metrics, and crash dumps are just three examples of data that can be written to a file share and processed or analyzed later.

QUEUE STORAGE:

• The Azure Queue service is used to store and retrieve messages. Queue messages can be up to 64 KB in size, and a queue can contain millions of messages. Queues are generally used to store lists of messages to be processed asynchronously.
• For example, say you want your customers to be able to upload pictures, and you want to create thumbnails for each picture. You could have your customer wait for you to create the thumbnails while uploading the pictures. An alternative would be to use a queue. When the customer finishes their upload, write a message to the queue. Then have an Azure Function retrieve the message from the queue and create the thumbnails. Each of the parts of this processing can be scaled separately, giving you more control when tuning it for your usage.

Azure Table Storage:

Scalable NoSQL Storage service for semi-structured data

Azure Disk storage:

Disk emulation service in the cloud.