Question

What are the different types of storage in Azure?

Answer 1

There are five types of storage in Azure:

1. Azure Blobs: Blob stands for a large binary object. It can support all kinds of files including, text files, videos, images, documents, binary data etc.
2. Azure Queues: Azure Queues is a cloud-based messaging store for establishing and brokering communication between various applications and components.
3. Azure Files: It is an organised way of storing data in the cloud. Azure Files has one main advantage over Azure Blobs, it allows organising the data in a folder structure, and it is SMB compliant, i.e. it can be used as a file share.
4. Azure Disks: It is used as a storage solution for Azure VMs (Virtual Machines).
5. Azure Tables: A NoSQL storage solution for storing structured data which does not meet the standard relational database schema.