In this video, learn about the Microsoft Azure cloud storage service known as a storage account and briefly explore the various storage services encompassed by the storage account. Contrast Azure Storage with the broader family of relational and NoSQL storage options generally referred to as databases and refer to the pricing and documentation websites.
- [Instructor] Microsoft Azure Storage…is a cloud-based service for persisting and retrieving data…so storing and reading objects of various kinds…through the cloud infrastructure.…An Azure Storage account is the element…that you will see in the Azure Portal.…The resource manager creates Azure Storage account resources…and it is the configuration element where we will start…for creating storage elements like blobs,…tables, queues, and file shares.…There are two different kinds of storage accounts.…
One is considered a general purpose storage account.…A general purpose storage account gives you all of the…capabilities of blobs, tables, queues, disks, file shares…and so forth, and they come in two flavors.…One is Premium as a general purpose storage account…which is backed by SSDs…so for the blobs that contain our disks,…specifically, the virtual machine, virtual hard disks,…we can have them placed on solid state storage or Premium…storage, we would get the best possible performance.…There's also a Standard variation which is for traditional…
Author
Anton Delsink
Released
12/11/2018- Creating and managing storage accounts in the Azure portal
- Stored access policies for granting privileges
- Encrypting data at rest
- Azure Storage Files and net use
- Querying files
- Accessing files from both SMB and the REST API concurrently
- Using AzCopy to copy data among storage accounts asynchronously
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Introduction
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What you should know1m 54s
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1. Overview
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Azure Storage overview9m 13s
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Azure Storage Explorer2m 13s
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2. Security
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Shared key authentication2m 22s
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Stored access policies2m 16s
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Encryption at rest2m 25s
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3. Azure Storage Files
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Connect to Azure storage files13m 51s
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Query Azure storage files15m 25s
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Combine REST and SMB12m 18s
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Shared access signatures (SAS)13m 22s
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Container properties6m 6s
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AzCopy for async operations5m 48s
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Conclusion
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Next steps58s
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