Azure Storage

Azure Storage


Description


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.


Features

Storage Feature overview of Azure Storage
Cloud based
GDPR Compliant
On premise
Open source
Versioned files
Cross Region Replication
API
S3 Compatible API
Management interfacesPortal, CLI, REST api
Event hooks/pubsub
SLABest 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 bucketUnlimited, as long as you stay under 5PB across your account
Max filesize for a bucket
Maximum amount of bucketsunlimited
Logs
Authentication / ACLShared access signature allows authenticated access to objects
CDN integrationAzure Storage integrates with Azure’s as well as any other CDN directly
Peering & interconnectAzure Storage doesn’t have special interconnects published
Unsupported Paid Feature Supported Unknown