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Microsoft Azure Cloud Storage Microsoft’s answer to their cloud competitor Amazon is finally here. Microsoft has a wide range of storage solutions, providing SaaS (software as a service), PaaS (platform as a service ) and IaaS (infrastructure as a service). Azure supports a great variety of programming languages, tools, and frameworks, ranging from Microsoft-specific to Linux, or other third-party software and systems.
In the table below we’ll look at the Hot Access Tier, as this is the most commonly used storage tier for online usage.
| Cloud based | |
| GDPR Compliant | |
| On premise | |
| Open source | |
| Versioned files | |
| Cross Region Replication | |
| API | |
| S3 Compatible API | |
| Management interfaces | Portal, CLI, REST api |
| Event hooks/pubsub | |
| SLA | Best effort. Credits below 99.9%. That is 43 minutes of downtime allowed per month without having to issue credits |
| Maximum object filesize | ~4.75 TB |
| Minimum object filesize | A 0 byte file has at least 4 bytes of chargeable overhead for metadata. Formula: 4 bytes + Len (PartitionKey + RowKey) * 2 bytes + For-Each Property(8 bytes + Len(Property Name) * 2 bytes + Sizeof(.Net Property Type)) |
| Recommended max file count per bucket | Unlimited, as long as you stay under 5PB across your account |
| Max filesize for a bucket | |
| Maximum amount of buckets | unlimited |
| Logs | |
| Authentication / ACL | Shared access signature allows authenticated access to objects |
| CDN integration | Azure Storage integrates with Azure’s as well as any other CDN directly |
| Peering & interconnect | Azure Storage doesn’t have special interconnects published |
| Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown | |
