Storage account overview - Azure Storage

Summary

Learn about the different types of storage accounts in Azure Storage. Review account naming, performance tiers, access tiers, redundancy, encryption, endpoints, and more.

Highlights

An Azure storage account contains all of your Azure Storage data objects, including blobs, file shares, queues, tables, and disks. The storage account provides a unique namespace for your Azure Storage data that's accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Data in your storage account is durable and highly available, secure, and massively scalable. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznacz5j1vz94pxpx9wkw0fr))

Standard general-purpose v2 ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznamamf0ar3mg0svqj4qmzm))

Standard storage account type for blobs, file shares, queues, and tables. Recommended for most scenarios using Azure Storage. If you want support for network file system (NFS) in Azure Files, use the premium file shares account type. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznaghwfzz6zhtjd788rkyg4))

Premium block blobs3 ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznamdg344ym5zjwp1dw6czf))

Premium storage account type for block blobs and append blobs. Recommended for scenarios with high transaction rates or that use smaller objects or require consistently low storage latency. Learn more about example workloads. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznagtedd059e7ekwjscsme9))

Premium file shares3 ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznamexm3w2400dvrqg2fgsa))

Premium page blobs3 ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznamh504wadpaysfec6j7pn))

Storage account names must be between 3 and 24 characters in length and may contain numbers and lowercase letters only. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznadbpvd6ph3sc7xdktrka1))

Your storage account name must be unique within Azure. No two storage accounts can have the same name. ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznaddpka8tcha9qc9hrm1xg))

Blob Storage ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznaf8x9yz5nehxxfj49e446))

Static website (Blob Storage) ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznafb3gacxz3nv9cexsgj45))

Data Lake Storage Gen2 ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznafcjnjq4cyd4j68503sg8))

Azure Files ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznafkcc6q0t1wafjsneh1jb))

Queue Storage ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznafh0rvk94n6nfsz1mnw0x))

Table Storage ([View Highlight] (https://read.readwise.io/read/01gznafnnnt3ee05pacf464z3k))