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Azure Storage is a Microsoft-managed service providing cloud storage that is highly available, secure, durable, scalable, and redundant. Azure Storage includes Azure Blobs (objects), Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Files, Azure Queues, and Azure Tables.

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Getting Started

Getting Started

  1. Get started with Azure Storage
    11/8/2016, Video, 0:04:19
    Learn how to get started using Azure Storage services including blobs, tables, files, and queues from Windows and Linux.
  2. Azure Storage Performance, Scalability and Security
    4/29/2015, Video, 0:56:44
    Cloud, on premise, and mobile applications are all increasingly using cloud storage. Azure Storage is a cloud storage service which provides scalability, durability, and...
  3. Understanding and Using Azure Storage
    11/16/2017, Trainings
    Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your...
  4. Planning and Designing Microsoft Azure Storage Solutions
    11/16/2017, Trainings
    Understanding the storage capabilities in Azure can ensure an optimal infrastructure deployment and that you're using the right type of service while minimizing how much your...
  5. Use Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) as a starting point on your cloud journey
    9/28/2016, Video, 1:08:59
    The benefits of Cloud to IT organizations is undeniable, yet many of you are in early stages of plotting out your journey to the Cloud. Microsoft Azure IaaS is a collection of...
  6. Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer
    6/20/2016, Tool
    Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer (Preview) is a standalone app from Microsoft that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data on Windows, OSX and Linux.
  7. Data on Azure: The big picture
    9/28/2017, Video, 1:12:13
    Microsoft Azure provides a broad range of services for working with data. Using these services well requires knowing at least a little bit about all of them. In this session,...

Azure Storage Videos

Demo: Configure Auditing for Azure SQL Database | Azure SQL for beginners (Ep. 29)
0:02:15
Demo: Configure Auditing for Azure SQL Database | Azure SQL for beginners...
8/5/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Developer
Azure Mini Fun Bytes S01E02: How to setup Azure blob storage
0:10:43
Azure Mini Fun Bytes S01E02: How to setup Azure blob storage
7/22/2020, YouTube: IT Ops Talk
.NET Virtual User Group - Building Island Tracker – Xamarin, Functions, Table Storage, and More
1:26:19
.NET Virtual User Group - Building Island Tracker – Xamarin, Functions,...
6/11/2020, .NET Foundation
Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks
0:29:38
Server-side encryption with customer-managed keys for Azure Managed Disks
5/8/2020, YouTube: Azure Power Lunch
Introduction to Azure Blob Storage
0:02:07
Introduction to Azure Blob Storage
4/20/2020, YouTube: Microsoft Azure
How I Build a Budget-friendly URL Shortener Easy to Deploy and Customized
0:04:27
How I Build a Budget-friendly URL Shortener Easy to Deploy and Customized
4/14/2020, YouTube: Cloud in 5 minutes
more...

Azure Storage News

9/17/2020, Service Updates
Azure Blob access time tracking and access time-based lifecycle management preview
The preview is available in France Central, Canada East, and Canada Central regions.
9/17/2020, Service Updates
Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now supports append blobs
In addition to supporting block blobs, Azure Blob storage lifecycle management now offers a rich, rule-based policy to manage the retention of your append blobs.
9/16/2020, Service Updates
Azure Files support for NFS v4.1 is now in preview
Azure Files now adds support for NFS v4.1 file system protocol for an easy migration of your Linux-centric workloads.
9/9/2020, Service Updates
Azure Blob storage object replication is now generally available
Object replication allows you to replicate your block blob data at the blob level from one storage account to another anywhere in the Azure.
8/27/2020, Service Updates
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 access control list recursive update in public preview
Set, update, or remove access control lists (ACLs) recursively for existing Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 directories and files.
8/24/2020, Service Updates
AzCopy v10.6 released with updated sync features and larger blob size support
AzCopy v10.6 sync now supports access control lists (ACLs) and properties as well as larger block blob size and blob versioning.
8/12/2020, Service Updates
Improvements to Azure VM backups are now available
Azure Backup now supports restoring unmanaged VMs/Disks as Managed Disks, backup for Virtual Machine Scale Sets, and allows replacing existing disks for VMs with Managed Service Identity
7/31/2020, Service Updates
New regions added for Azure Blob storage object replication public preview
We have expanded the preview regions for Azure Blob storage object replication to include East US 2, Central US. You can start previewing this feature on any existing or new General-purpose...
7/15/2020, Service Updates
Choose to allow or disallow blob public access on Azure Storage accounts
Azure Storage now supports anonymous public read access for containers and blobs. Learn more about how to evaluate anonymous access to your data.
7/10/2020, Azure Podcast
Episode 337 - Azure Data Lake Storage Static Website
The team is joined by Stephen Wu from ADLS to talk about how the ADLS Gen 2 team is working to simplify the Storage conversation for Azure customers by driving for feature parity with Blob...
7/6/2020, James Serra's Blog
More ADLS Gen2 enhancements
On the heels of More Azure Blob Storage enhancements come more enhancements for Azure Data Lake Store Gen2 (ADLS Gen2): Archive tier is now GA: The archive tier provides an ultra-low cost tier...
6/17/2020, Service Updates
Azure geo-zone-redundant storage is now generally available
Geo-zone-redundant storage (GZRS) and read-access geo-zone-redundant storage (RA-GZRS) are now generally available, offering intra-regional and inter-regional high availability and disaster...
6/17/2020, Service Updates
Azure Storage account failover is now generally available
Customer-initiated Storage account failover is now generally available, allowing you to determine when to initiate a failover instead of waiting for Microsoft to do so.
5/26/2020,
Azure IoT Hub virtual network support now available
  To help you secure your IoT solution from exposure to the public internet, we’re announcing two Azure IoT Hub features to support the virtual network (VNet) connectivity pattern: IoT Hub now...
5/25/2020, James Serra's Blog
More Azure Blob Storage enhancements
I recently blogged about Query Acceleration for ADLS, which also applies to Azure Blob storage. Now there are more new features for blog storage that I will talk about. Blob index preview:...
5/19/2020, Service Updates
Azure Storage—Routing preferences now available for preview
Routing preferences provide the flexibility to optimize traffic to your Storage account for premium network performance by using the Microsoft global network, or to help lower costs using the...
5/14/2020, Service Updates
Private endpoints for Azure Storage are now generally available in the Azure Government region
Private endpoints for Azure Storage are now generally available in the Azure Government region. Private endpoints provide secure connectivity to Azure Storage from an Azure virtual network....
5/11/2020, Microsoft Azure Blog
Azure Blob Storage enhancing data protection and recovery capabilities
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage (GZRS)—providing protection against regional disasters and Account failover—allowing you to determine when to...
5/8/2020, The Xamarin Podcast
Episode 73: Essentials 1.6, Forms 4.6 and Contact Tracing
Hope everybody is staying healthy! We have lots of news and new releases to cover this month for you! Xamarin.Essentials and Xamarin.Forms have new releases. And the Xamarin engineering team...
5/4/2020, James Serra's Blog
Query Acceleration for ADLS
Just announced is Query Acceleration for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 (ADLS) as well as Blob Storage. This is a new capability for ADLS that enables applications and analytics frameworks to...