Azure Storage is a set of cloud storage services provided by Microsoft as part of the Azure public cloud. It offers highly scalable object storage, file systems as a service, virtual disk storage, and specialized storage for messaging data and NoSQL datasets.
- Azure Blobs—elastically scalable object storage, supporting both text-based data and unstructured data such as images and video.
- Azure Files—managed file shared hosted on the cloud, which can be mounted by on-premise or cloud-based machines.
- Azure Queues—dedicated data store to enable fast, reliable messaging.
- Azure Tables—a NoSQL data store for key-value pairs, offering ease of use and high performance.
- Azure Disks—virtual hard disks that can be attached to Azure virtual machines (VM), based on block storage technology.
