Azure - Storage

Discover how Azure storage uses storage accounts to manage up to 500 terabytes with standard or premium options, and blob storage with hot, warm, and cold access tiers.

Explore Azure storage accounts, general purpose v2 with blob, file, table, and queue storage, tiering (hot to archive), and replication options (LRS or GRS), plus access keys and creation steps.

Connect to your storage account using access keys to copy files into and extract them from storage, using command line tools or Azure Storage Explorer or CloudBerry Explorer.

Create and manage a blob storage container in a storage account, upload files, and set private or public access. Use shared access signatures to grant time-limited read access.

Create an Azure file storage smb share in your storage account, map it as a drive with net use or PowerShell, and enable cross-system access to shared files.

Azure file sync lets you create a sync share to synchronize files across on-premises servers and Azure, enabling cloud backup and cloud tearing with space-saving tiering.

Learn to monitor Azure storage by inspecting metrics like capacity, transactions, ingress and egress, and enable diagnostics to gather hourly and per-minute blob and file storage logs.

Leverage Azure content delivery network to cache large static files at global points of presence, reducing latency. Ensure public blobs or public containers are used and expect a seven-day time-to-live.

Create a content delivery network profile, then add an endpoint to map a storage account to the CDN for global caching across points of presence and web delivery.

Learn to create a backup vault in Azure, enable protection for on-premises and Azure resources, and design a custom policy with daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly recovery points.

Leverage Azure Recovery Services vault to replicate on-premises physical machines and VMware or Hyper-V VMs to Azure, enabling automated recovery plans and cloud failover with a 30-second RPO.

Take a tour of the azure storage environment, from storage accounts to blob and file storage, including azure file sync, diagnostics, cdn, backup vault, and site recovery.