Storage

Azure Key Vault

• To manage the encrption key, secret, etc

• The content of key vault will be replicated to a secondary region that defined by azure paired region

Storage Account

Types

Blob

• To store image ,video objects and generating url

File

• To used to create file share

Authorization

Access Key

• To create the changeable key on account level

Share Access Signature

• To create signature on account or blob level with specific date range and specific permission scope

Azure Active Directory

• To access the storage based on the role

Redundancy

Locally-redundant

• Copies of data on the same data center

Zone-redundant

• Copies of data on the different data center within the same region

Geo-redundant

• Copies of data on different data center which is in different region

Access Tiers

Hot

• Lower access cost, Higher storage cost

Cold

• Middle

Archive

• Opposite as hot tiers

File Sync

• Allow multiple computer can edit, upload and delete files on the file storage by mapping the disks of computer and storage

SQL Database

• SLA 99.995%

• To make use of features, such as automated backup, automated tuning

Failover & Active geo replication

• Create the replica of the database and sync it

• If for any reason your primary database fails, you can initiate a geo-failover to any of your secondary databases. When a secondary is promoted to the primary role, all other secondaries are automatically linked to the new primary.

Backup

• An essential part of any business continuity and disaster recovery strategy, because they help protect your data from corruption or deletion. You can perform the backup with different frequency

• Can perform point-in-time of a deleted database on the same server

• Can perform long-term retention, backups can be saved in storage account up to 10 years

Performance Insight & Automatic Tuning

• To inspect the performance of the sql query

• To tune the performance automatically or manually , such as : managing index

Cosmos DB

• Fully managed NOSQL and relational database

• Can enable multi-region write and replicate data globally

Redis Cache

• Managed redis service