Microsoft Azure provide different type of Storage account for different purposes of used in production environment or real life environment. I will tried to explain the storage account service in form of following table:
Name | Performance | Access tiers | Service | Replication | Deployment |
General Purpose V1 | Standard, Premium | Blob, FIle, Queue, Table, Disk | LRS, GRS, RA-GRS | Resource Manager Classic | |
General Purpose V2 | Standard, Premium | HOT, COOL, ARCHIVE | Blob, File, Queue, Table, Disk,Data LakeGen 2 | LRS, GRS, RA-GRS, ZRS, GZRS, RA-GZRS | Resource Manager |
Block Blob Storage | Premium | Blob | LRS, ZRS | Resource Manager | |
File Storage | Premium | File | LRS, ZRS | Resource Manager | |
Blob Storage | Standard | HOT, COOL, ARCHIVE | Blob | LRS, GRS, RA-GRS | Resource Manager |
Access Tiers:
HOT: Data access frequently, high storage cost but lowest access cost.
COLD: Data access infrequently but need to store for atleast 30 days. Lower storage cost but higher access cost.
Archive: data access very infrequently but store atleast for 180 days. Lower storage cost but higher access cost.