Azure Storage Account
An Azure Storage Account is a secure account, which provides you access to services in Azure Storage. The storage account is like an administrative container, and within that, we can have several services like blobs, files, queues, tables, disks, etc. And when we create a storage account in Azure, we will get the unique namespace for our storage resources. That unique namespace forms the part of the URL. The storage account name should be unique across all existing storage account name in Azure.
Types of Storage Accounts
| Storage account type | Supported services | Supported performance tiers | Supported access tiers | Replication options | Deployment model | Encryption |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| General-purpose V2 | Blob, File, Queue, Table, and Disk | Standard, Premium | Hot, Cool, Archive | LRS, ZRS, GRS, RA-GRS | Resource Manager | Encrypted |
| General-purpose V1 | Blob, File, Queue, Table, and Disk | Standard, Premium | N/A | LRS, GRS, RA-GRS | Resource Manager, Classic | Encrypted |
| Blob storage | Blob (block blobs and append blobs only) | Standard | Hot, Cool, Archive | LRS, GRS, RA-GRS | Resource Manager | Encrypted |
Note: If you want to use all storage services, we recommend you to go with general-purpose version-2, and in case if you need storage account for blobs only, then you can go with the blob storage account type.
