Just like you plan the network in your datacenter or company, you need to do the same in Azure. Nearly every service in Azure is related to storage. Therefore, it has to be planned well. You should consider scalability, durability, and high availability depending on the scenario and target you try to achieve.

In this chapter, Azure Storage management is discussed. The key takeaways are how and when to implement and integrate the different Azure Storage types.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Storage accounts
• Replication and redundancy
• Azure Storage services:
  • Blob
  • Table
  • Queue
  • File
• Exploring Azure Storage with Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
• Premium storage accounts
• Pricing

This chapter does not cover deep backup, Azure site recovery, or StorSimple topics. We will set up some basic storage configurations in this chapter.