Azure Storage documentation

Object storage for your applications

• Learn about storage for unstructured data (Blob Storage)
• Understand block, append, and page blobs
• All Blob Storage documentation >

Storage for big data analytics

• Learn about storage for enterprise data lakes (Data Lake Storage)
• Understand options and tools to process big data

Cloud-hosted file shares

• Use files shares provided by the core Azure Storage platform (Azure Files)
• Use volumes provided by NetApp ONTAP (Azure NetApp Files)

Storage for infrastructure

• Learn about Azure managed disks for Azure VMs
• Understand the available virtual machine disk types
• Learn about Azure Elastic SAN
• Understand and plan for an Elastic SAN deployment

Storage for asynchronous message queuing

• Learn about the Azure Storage solution for queues (Queue Storage)
• Compare Queue Storage and Service Bus queues
• All Queue Storage documentation >

Storage for structured NoSQL data

• Store structured NoSQL data in the cloud (Table Storage and Azure Cosmos DB)
• Compare Table Storage and Azure Cosmos DB for Table
• All Table Storage documentation >

Expand on-premises file share to the cloud

• Azure File Sync Introduction
• Sync Azure file shares with Windows file server (Azure FileSync)
• Deploy Azure File Sync
• All Azure File Sync documentation >

Online data transfer (on-premises to Azure)

• Seamlessly transfer data to Azure (Data Box Gateway)
• Locally process data before transfer to Azure (Azure Stack Edge)
• All Data Box Online documentation >

Caching for high-performance computing (HPC) workloads

• Use a fully-managed file caching service (Azure HPC Cache)
• Cache on-premises NAS in Azure (Avere vFXT for Azure)
• Deploy an on-premises caching appliance (Azure FXT Edge Filer)

Offline bulk transfer to Azure

• Transfer < 40 TB of data (Data Box Disk)
• Transfer 40 - 500 TB of data (Data Box)
• Transfer > 500 TB of data (Data Box Heavy)
• All Data Box documentation >

Transfer small datasets (online)

• Use the AzCopy command-line tool
• Use the Azure Storage Explorer GUI-based tool
• Use BlobFuse2 to mount Azure blobs on Linux

Control costs

• Tier blob data in cost-effective manner (hot, cool, archive)
• How to set a blob's access tier
• How to archive a blob
• Training: Using Blob Storage tiers

Share your data

• Share data with customers and partners (Azure Data Share)
• Supported data stores for sharing
• Azure Data Share tutorial

Back up data

• Back up VMs (Azure Backup)
• Back up Azure file shares
• All back up documentation >