The general-purpose storage account is very universal. It can contain storage services of any type available. That includes blobs (of course, also virtual machine disks based on blobs), files, queues, and tables in a storage account. On creation, there are two available performance settings available. The first available performance option is the standard option. This type of storage account holds queues, tables, blobs, and files.

The second option is the premium one. This is only capable of storing Azure virtual machine disks. For more information about this, see the Premium storage accounts section later in this chapter.