Exploring storage accounts, containers, and blobs
In Azure, there’s a variety of different services that allow you to work with data. Depending on your needs, there are various databases (Azure SQL Database or Azure Cosmos DB), orchestrators (Azure Data Factory, or ADF), or data ingestion streams (Azure Event Hubs or Azure Stream Analytics). What’s more, even Azure VMs, which we covered in Chapters 3-8, need a storage solution where they can keep their data. All those services have one thing in common – they leverage or integrate with one of the most important Azure services called Azure Storage.
Lots of other available services use Azure Storage as one of the key components they are based on. You can think about that service as a part of Azure’s service backbone (Azure VMs can also be included in that category). Why is Azure Storage that important? Let’s characterize its capabilities:
- It’s a general-purpose storage, meaning it can...
