Microsoft Azure Storage: The Complete Hands-On Guide

Explore Azure storage by walking through a Node.js demo app called My Cloud Bucket that creates containers, uploads files, lists content, deletes items, and downloads data.

Explore Azure storage accounts, which group blobs, files, queues, and tables under a single container to simplify management and apply uniform replication, security, and performance settings across all data services.

Balance data diversity, cost sensitivity, and resource management when deciding how many storage accounts to use for Azure blob, file, table, and queue services.

Explore deploying an Azure storage account via portal, compare standard and premium performance, understand Central India region and resource group setup, and choose general purpose v2 as recommended account kind.

Discover Azure storage replication and how it ensures high availability with multiple copies. Learn about lrs, grs, and ra-grs, plus zone variants that protect data across racks and regions.

Configure advanced networking, public endpoints or private links. Enable soft delete, versioning, and point-in-time restore, then review advanced settings and default access tier.

Explore Azure blob storage as Microsoft's object storage for unstructured data, learn to create containers, manage public or private access, and upload blobs with versioning and soft delete options.

Explore advanced blob upload options, including rbac authentication, blob types (block, page, append), tiering (hot, cool, archive), with encryption at rest and optional encryption scopes.

Learn to host static content on Azure blob storage, using index and error documents, region-specific endpoints, and optional custom domains for seamless user access.

Define and implement Azure blob storage lifecycle management rules to automatically move blobs from hot to cool to archive and delete aged data, with scope filtering and practical portal steps.

Learn how shared key authorization secures an Azure storage account, and why two access keys enable seamless rotation with the connection string for read, write, and delete operations.

Learn how to use shared access signatures to grant restricted, time-bound access to Azure storage resources for untrusted partners, with IP and protocol controls.

Set up the environment for Node.js and the Azure SDK, explore a browser-based blob storage demo, configure cross-origin resource sharing and shared access signatures, then bundle and deploy the app.

Enhance a web UI for Azure storage by adding a download button and a dynamic download links table, updating JavaScript to toggle visibility and populate blob lists from a container.

Publish your web app hosted on an Azure virtual machine by installing Ngrok and exposing a public URL that tunnels traffic to your locally running site.

Explore Azure file share, a fully managed file service with SMB access, accessible via a URL that includes a SAS token, mountable by multiple VMs for configuration and data storage.

Create a file share in an Azure storage account and explore premium, transaction optimized, hot, and cool tiers. Discover how file shares can be mounted on systems, unlike blob storage.

Discover how to create and mount an Azure file share on Windows using the script or UI, and understand the security implications of mounting Azure storage as a drive.

Discover how Azure file sync extends on premises file shares into Azure cloud, caching frequently used data locally on Windows Server 2012 or later, while syncing rest to cloud storage.

Configure Azure file sync from scratch by creating a file share with quota, deploying a region-matched sync service, and preparing to register servers with the download agent.

Create a sync group with cloud and server endpoints to map a local on-premises directory to an Azure file share, enable cloud tiering, and verify synchronization.

Explore AzCopy, a command-line tool to copy blobs and files between storage accounts and containers, authenticate with tenant IDs and SAS tokens, and perform recursive transfers for large data.