<aside> πŸ’‘ Storage β‡’ One of the foundational technologies on which much is built. Many resources need storage to work.

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<aside> πŸ’‘ Azure storage account β‡’ General purpose v2(gpv2) is the most common type

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<aside> πŸ’‘ Azure Data lake Storage β‡’ Cheapest type of storage, Pay per GB.

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BLOB

<aside> πŸ’‘ BLOB is a β€œbackronym” for Binary Large Object.

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<aside> πŸ’‘ A collection of binary data. That binary data could be in the form of a file ( stored in a storage account ) or data stored in a database.

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<aside> πŸ’‘ In AWS, Storage Account is a Simple storage service (S3).

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Configuration of a Storage account

<aside> πŸ’‘ Redundancy β‡’ ZRS β‡’ Makes a copy of the data, through available zones in the region.

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<aside> πŸ’‘ Security β‡’ Legacy configuration is through account key access, a forward approach would be to use Active Directory.

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<aside> πŸ’‘ Access tier β‡’ Cool access cost half of hot access, but the price for opening a file is higher that the hot one.

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<aside> πŸ’‘ Containers β‡’ Subdivision where the files are stored.

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<aside> πŸ’‘ Shared Access Signature (SAS) β‡’ Useful to control access to certain resources.

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<aside> πŸ’‘ Life-cycle management β‡’ Allows changing the tier of a file (from hot to cool, cool to archive, etc).

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AzCopy

<aside> πŸ’‘ Is a tool that you can use to copy blobs or files to/from a storage account

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Azure File Sync