Balaji Ramamoorthy
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Azure Storage in 30 days

A lesson a day on Azure Storage for infrastructure engineers: accounts, blobs, files, disks, security, backup, migration and cost.

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What Azure Storage is and the services it offers

The storage account, its endpoints and the main services: blobs, files, queues, tables and disks.

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Series content

  1. Foundations4 of 4 parts published
    1. What Azure Storage is and the services it offers2 min
    2. Storage account types and performance tiers2 min
    3. Redundancy: LRS, ZRS, GRS and GZRS2 min
    4. Creating a storage account with the portal, CLI and PowerShell2 min
  2. Blob storage1 of 3 parts published
    1. Blob storage: containers, blobs and access tiers2 min
    2. Hot, cool, cold and archive tiers in practiceNext
    3. Lifecycle management policiesSoon
  3. Azure FilesComing soon
    1. Azure Files: SMB file shares in the cloudSoon
    2. Azure Files and identity: Entra ID and Active Directory accessSoon
    3. NFS file shares and when to use themSoon
  4. Queues, tables and disksComing soon
    1. Queue storage and Table storageSoon
    2. Managed disks: types, sizes and performanceSoon
    3. Disk snapshots and imagesSoon
  5. Access and network securityComing soon
    1. Account keys, shared access signatures and stored access policiesSoon
    2. Authorising with Entra ID and data rolesSoon
    3. The storage firewall and virtual network rulesSoon
    4. Private endpoints and DNS for storageSoon
  6. Encryption and data protectionComing soon
    1. Encryption at rest and customer-managed keysSoon
    2. Encryption in transit and the minimum TLS versionSoon
    3. Soft delete, versioning and point-in-time restoreSoon
    4. Immutable storage and legal holdSoon
  7. Backup and moving dataComing soon
    1. Azure Backup for file shares and virtual machinesSoon
    2. Azure File Sync for on-premises file serversSoon
    3. Moving data in with AzCopy and Storage ExplorerSoon
    4. Large migrations: Storage Mover and Data BoxSoon
  8. Running storage wellComing soon
    1. Monitoring storage: metrics, logs and alertsSoon
    2. Understanding and controlling storage costSoon
    3. Troubleshooting common storage errorsSoon
    4. Infrastructure as code for storage with Bicep and TerraformSoon
    5. Review, a design checklist and AZ-104 storage tipsSoon
About this series

Who it is for

Windows, VMware and network engineers who now need to design and run storage in Azure. It also lines up with the storage part of the AZ-104 exam.

How it works

One short lesson a day for 30 days. Each lesson explains one topic in plain words and ends with a small task you can do in your own subscription. Lessons are published as they are written, and the plan below shows what is coming.

What you need

An Azure subscription with permission to create resources, and Azure PowerShell or the Azure CLI. A free or sandbox subscription is enough for most tasks.