• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-introduction

• storage accounts provide the logical container/namespace for storage services like, blob containers, file shares, queues and tables.

A massively scalable object store for text and binary data. Also includes support for big data analytics through Data Lake Storage Gen2.

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-blobs-introduction

• block blobs
  • used for text and binary files
  • optimized for uploading large amounts of data efficiently
• append blobs
  • optimized for append operations. log files is a common use case
• page blobs
  • support random read/write operations for things like VHD disk images for VMs

Azure Files provides managed file shares that are accessible via SMB or NFS.

A messaging store for reliable messaging between application components.

A NoSQL store for schemaless storage of structured data.

Block-level storage volumes for Azure VMs.