Updated: July 16, 2020 (January 16, 2017)

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Azure Storage Updates Security, Size

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Andrew Snodgrass

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Azure Storage offers several scalable, nonrelational data storage services for use with Azure applications and databases, traditional file shares, and other workloads. Updates to the service in 2016 provided larger file sizes, lower pricing for infrequently accessed data, and security and encryption features that could make the service and other Azure services that rely on Azure Storage more viable for secure workloads. New management tools (in preview) simplify daily management and movement of data between existing storage and the service. However, features have limitations, and customers may need to rearchitect their use of the service to optimize performance and cost.

Service Overview

Azure Storage includes scalable, nonrelational data storage types with a variety of size, performance, disaster recovery, and availability options to accommodate different workload requirements:

  • Blobs are general binary and text data objects.
  • Tables support nonrelational Not Only SQL (NoSQL) flexible

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