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Azure Storage Accounts

Azure storage accounts provide a unique namespace for accessing data stored in Azure. There are different types of storage accounts that offer varying levels of redundancy and availability. Azure also provides multiple services for storing and accessing data including blobs, files, queues, tables and disks.

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Azure Storage Accounts

Azure storage accounts provide a unique namespace for accessing data stored in Azure. There are different types of storage accounts that offer varying levels of redundancy and availability. Azure also provides multiple services for storing and accessing data including blobs, files, queues, tables and disks.

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Azure storage accounts

• What are Azure Storage accounts?


• A storage account provides a unique namespace for your Azure Storage data that's accessible from
anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Data in this account is secure, highly available, durable,
and massively scalable.
• Types of Azure storage accounts
• Locally redundant storage (LRS)
• Geo-redundant storage (GRS)
• Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
• Zone-redundant storage (ZRS)
• Geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS)
• Read-access geo-zone-redundant storage (RA-GZRS)
• Storage account endpoints: One of the benefits of using an Azure Storage Account is
having a unique namespace in Azure for your data.
Azure storage redundancy
Azure Storage always stores multiple copies of your data so that it's protected from planned and unplanned events such
as transient hardware failures, network or power outages, and natural disasters. Redundancy ensures that your storage
account meets its availability and durability targets even in the face of failures.
• Redundancy in the primary region
• Locally redundant storage: Locally redundant storage (LRS) replicates your data three times within a single data
center in the primary region. LRS provides at least 11 nines of durability (99.999999999%) of objects over a given
year.
• Zone-redundant storage: For Availability Zone-enabled Regions, zone-redundant storage (ZRS) replicates your
Azure Storage data synchronously across three Azure availability zones in the primary region. ZRS offers
durability for Azure Storage data objects of at least 12 nines (99.9999999999%) over a given year.
• Redundancy in a secondary region
• Geo-redundant storage: GRS copies your data synchronously three times within a single physical location in the
primary region using LRS. GRS offers durability for Azure Storage data objects of at least 16 nines
(99.99999999999999%) over a given year.
• Geo-zone-redundant storage: GZRS combines the high availability provided by redundancy across availability
zones with protection from regional outages provided by geo-replication. GZRS is designed to provide at least
16 nines (99.99999999999999%) of durability of objects over a given year.
• Read access to data in the secondary region
Azure storage services
• Benefits of Azure Storage
• Durable and highly available: Redundancy ensures that your data is safe if transient hardware failures occur.
• Secure: All data written to an Azure storage account is encrypted by the service.
• Scalable: Azure Storage is designed to be massively scalable to meet the data storage and performance needs of today's applications.
• Managed: Azure handles hardware maintenance, updates, and critical issues for you.
• Accessible: Data in Azure Storage is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Microsoft provides client libraries for Azure Storage in a variety of languages, including .NET, Java,
Node.js, Python, PHP, Ruby, Go, and others, as well as a mature REST API.

• Azure Blobs
• Accessing blob storage: Objects in blob storage can be accessed from anywhere in the world via HTTP or HTTPS.
• Blob storage tiers: Data stored in the cloud can grow at an exponential pace. To manage costs for your expanding storage needs, it's helpful to organize your
data based on attributes like frequency of access and planned retention period.
• Hot access tier
• Cool access tier
• Cold access tier
• Archive access tier

• Azure Files
• Azure Files key benefits
• Shared access
• Fully managed
• Scripting and tooling
• Resiliency
• Familiar programmability

• Azure Queues: Azure Queue storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages. Once stored, you can access the messages from
anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS. A queue can contain as many messages as your storage account has
room for (potentially millions). Each individual message can be up to 64 KB in size. Queues are commonly used to create a backlog of work
to process asynchronously.
• Azure Disks: Azure Disk storage, or Azure managed disks, are block-level storage volumes managed by Azure for use with Azure VMs. Conceptually, they’re the same as a physical disk, but they’re
virtualized – offering greater resiliency and availability than a physical disk.

• Azure Tables: Azure Table storage stores large amounts of structured data. Azure tables are a NoSQL datastore that accepts authenticated calls from inside and outside the Azure cloud. This enables you
to use Azure tables to build your hybrid or multi-cloud solution and have your data always available.
Identify Azure data migration options
• Azure Migrate
• Unified migration platform: A single portal to start, run, and track your migration to Azure.
• Range of tools: A range of tools for assessment and migration. Azure Migrate tools include Azure Migrate: Discovery and assessment and Azure
Migrate: Server Migration.
• Assessment and migration: In the Azure Migrate hub, you can assess and migrate your on-premises infrastructure to Azure.

• Integrated tools
• Azure Migrate: Discovery and assessment: Discover and assess on-premises servers running on VMware, Hyper-V, and physical servers in
preparation for migration to Azure.
• Azure Migrate: Server Migration: Migrate VMware VMs, Hyper-V VMs, physical servers, other virtualized servers, and public cloud VMs to Azure.
• Data Migration Assistant: Data Migration Assistant is a stand-alone tool to assess SQL Servers. It helps pinpoint potential problems blocking
migration.
• Azure Database Migration Service: Migrate on-premises databases to Azure VMs running SQL Server, Azure SQL Database, or SQL Managed
Instances.
• Azure App Service migration assistant:Azure App Service migration assistant is a standalone tool to assess on-premises websites for migration to
Azure App Service.
• Azure Data Box: Use Azure Data Box products to move large amounts of offline data to Azure.

• Azure Data Box: Azure Data Box is a physical migration service that helps transfer large amounts of data in a quick, inexpensive, and
reliable way. The secure data transfer is accelerated by shipping you a proprietary Data Box storage device that has a maximum usable
storage capacity of 80 terabytes.
• Use cases: Data Box is ideally suited to transfer data sizes larger than 40 TBs in scenarios with no to limited network connectivity. The
data movement can be one-time, periodic, or an initial bulk data transfer followed by periodic transfers.
Identify Azure file movement options
In addition to large scale migration using services like Azure Migrate and Azure Data Box,
Azure also has tools designed to help you move or interact with individual files or small file
groups. Among those tools are AzCopy, Azure Storage Explorer, and Azure File Sync.
• AzCopy: AzCopy is a command-line utility that you can use to copy blobs or files to or
from your storage account.
• Azure Storage Explorer: Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app that provides a
graphical interface to manage files and blobs in your Azure Storage Account.
• Azure File Sync: Azure File Sync is a tool that lets you centralize your file shares in Azure
Files and keep the flexibility, performance, and compatibility of a Windows file server.

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