Understanding Azure Storage 101

This chapter introduces Microsoft Azure Storage, its types, and the differences between Azure's different models. It also introduces Azure Storage accounts and how to work with them. Moreover, you will have learned how to automate all of these tasks by the end of the chapter.

The following topics will be covered:

• An introduction to Microsoft Azure Storage
• Why Azure Storage?
• Azure terminologies
• Azure Service Management (ASM) versus the Azure Resource Manager (ARM) model
• Azure Storage types
• Azure Storage accounts
• Automating Azure tasks