Azure has a number of services that require data storage in one form or another, whether it be a virtual hard disk, message queues, table records. Microsoft provides Azure Storage as it’s cloud storage service. Although there are some other forms of data storage, Azure Storage is the primary service supplying scalable and redundant data storage.

Azure Storage allows the creation of Storage Accounts which provide various data services for different types of data. A single account can have multiple containers which combined can store up to 2PB of data depending on the Azure region (some regions have a lower cap of 500TB).

Once a storage account has been created, the account has containers where the specific data is stored. Each data service is designed for a particular type of data which is stored in specialised data containers.

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