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Understand Azure storage - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Getting Started with Microsoft Azure by Microsoft Press
Understand Azure storage
Azure Storage is a service that makes it easy to store data in Azure that your applications can access. The storage service we're going to talk about in this lesson is Blob storage. And Blob storage is for storing unstructured files. In other words, the same kinds of things that you would save to a hard drive can be stored in Blob storage. Anything that you store in Blob storage is stored in a container, and you can think of a container as being similar to a folder on a hard drive. Containers allow you to organize your blobs as you see fit. Any files that you add to Blob storage are called blobs, and blob is actually an acronym that means binary large object. When you store blobs in Blob storage, you're charged for storage costs, and you're also charged for access costs. So you can help control those costs by ensuring that you use a suitable storage tier. The hot tier is for blobs that you use frequently. It has the highest storage cost, but the lowest access cost. The cool tier is…
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