AZ-900 Certification Notes

Chapter 6 - Introduction

This chapter will cover the most common forms of storage on Azure, as well as key features of the Azure storage service:

Blob
- Incredibly versatile and used in a lot of scenarios
Disk
- A disk for you to store your data on your Azure virtual machines
File
- File storage is a fully manage file storage in the cloud. It's a great way to extend on-prem file servers to your Azure environment
Archive
- Archive storage which is actually a storage tier is a very inexpensive way to storage massive amounts of archive data
Storage Redundancy
- Azure automatically creates multiple copies of your data, so that no single hard drive acts as a possible single point of failure
Moving Data
- Multiple methods of how to move data in Azure, occasionally moving small bits of data and much larger heavy scale data migration
Premium Performance Options
- Premium options within Azure Storage when you need maximum possible performance