Azure Storage documentation

Azure Storage products offer secure and scalable cloud and hybrid data storage services to businesses. Review technical documentation and resources to choose, implement, and optimize the right Azure Storage solution for your data. Options include object, file, disk, queue, and table Storage. There are also services for hybrid storage solutions, and services to transfer, share, and back up data.

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Review options for storage in Azure

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Introduction to Azure Storage

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Learn about types of storage accounts

How-To Guide

Create a storage account

Training

Build new Azure Storage skills

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Migrate data to Azure Storage

Azure Cloud storage solutions

Object storage for your applications

• Learn about storage for unstructured data (Blob Storage)
• Understand block, append, and page blobs
• All Blob Storage documentation >

Storage for big data analytics

• Learn about storage for enterprise data lakes (Data Lake Storage)
• Understand options and tools to process big data

Cloud-hosted file shares

• Use files shares provided by the core Azure Storage platform (Azure Files)
• Use volumes provided by NetApp ONTAP (Azure NetApp Files)

Storage for infrastructure

• Learn about Azure managed disks for Azure VMs
• Understand the available virtual machine disk types
• Learn about Azure Elastic SAN
• Understand and plan for an Elastic SAN deployment

Storage for asynchronous message queuing

• Learn about the Azure Storage solution for queues (Queue Storage)
• Compare Queue Storage and Service Bus queues
• All Queue Storage documentation >

Storage for structured NoSQL data

• Store structured NoSQL data in the cloud (Table Storage and Azure Cosmos DB)
• Compare Table Storage and Azure Cosmos DB for Table
• All Table Storage documentation >

Azure Hybrid storage solutions

Expand on-premises file share to the cloud

• Azure File Sync Introduction
• Sync Azure file shares with Windows file server (Azure FileSync)
• Deploy Azure File Sync
• All Azure File Sync documentation >

Online data transfer (on-premises to Azure)

• Seamlessly transfer data to Azure (Data Box Gateway)
• Locally process data before transfer to Azure (Azure Stack Edge)
• All Data Box Online documentation >

Caching for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads

• Use a fully-managed file caching service (Azure HPC Cache)
• Cache on-premises NAS in Azure (Avere vFXT for Azure)
• Deploy an on-premises caching appliance (Azure FXT Edge Filer)

Data operations

Offline bulk transfer to Azure

• Transfer < 40 TB of data (Data Box Disk)
• Transfer 40 - 500 TB of data (Data Box)
• Transfer > 500 TB of data (Data Box Heavy)
• All Data Box documentation >

Transfer small datasets (online)

• Use the AzCopy command-line tool
• Use the Azure Storage Explorer GUI-based tool
• Use BlobFuse2 to mount Azure blobs on Linux

Control costs

• Tier blob data in cost-effective manner (hot, cool, archive)
• How to set a blob's access tier
• How to archive a blob
• Training: Using Blob Storage tiers

Share your data

• Share data with customers and partners (Azure Data Share)
• Supported data stores for sharing
• Azure Data Share tutorial

Back up data

• Back up VMs (Azure Backup)
• Back up Azure file shares
• All back up documentation >