Azure - Storage Account (SA)

About

Storage is access through what the call a Storage account. The storage account is much more to split the functionalities.

Azure has two type of storage account:

• Azure Storage (Blob)
• Data Lake Store

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Perf

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-scalability-targets

Managament

Environment variable

For cli 1.0

• AZURE_STORAGE_CONNECTION_STRING
• AZURE_STORAGE_ACCOUNT and AZURE_STORAGE_ACCESS_KEY

List

With the cli 1.0

azure storage account list

info:    Executing command storage account list
+ Getting storage accounts
data:    Name               SKU Name        SKU Tier  Access Tier  Kind     Encrypted Service  Location     Resource Group
data:    -----------------  --------------  --------  -----------  -------  -----------------  -----------  --------------
data:    sawe               Standard_RAGRS  Standard               Storage  blob file          westeurope   ResourceG1
data:    alssa              Standard_RAGRS  Standard               Storage  blob file          westeurope   ResourceG2
data:    infstor001user     Standard_LRS    Standard               Storage  blob file          northeurope  ResourceG3
info:    storage account list command OK

Key

Documentation / Reference

• http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-whatis-account/
• https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/cindygross/2015/02/04/understanding-wasb-and-hadoop-storage-in-azure/