Exploring Azure Queue Storage

You learned about Azure Storage in Chapter 6, Developing Solutions That Use Azure Storage. Let’s briefly revise the topic and discover new details about the queue service.

Azure Storage is one of the most used services in Azure, initially designed for storing files and blobs. Nowadays, Azure Storage supports additional services, such as Azure Table Storage (a NoSQL database) and Azure Queue Storage (for simple messaging). Only the Standard storage tier supports NoSQL and queue services. Azure Storage can also persist data in geographically separate regions to increase high availability by synchronizing data between regions. The service is based on Microsoft-managed serverless infrastructure that is autoscaled on-demand. All the hosted services on the Azure Storage platform support strong security, including HTTPS RESTful interfaces for communication, self-generated crypto keys, RBAC access, managed identity, and many other useful features. Storage...