Azure Storage / Journey
Azure Storage / Journey
Three short, animated explainers take Azure Storage from a single account, to bulletproof durability, to sharing data securely — no wall of docs.
Follow them in order for the full picture, or jump straight to the one you need — each is a complete, self-contained story.
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Blob
Files
Queue
TableOne resource holds it all — Blob, Queue, Table and Files — with access tiers from Hot to Archive (and Smart), and Standard vs Premium performance.
Start explainer 01 →How Azure keeps your data safe — copies spread across drives, zones and regions, plus failover and read-access (RA-) options.
Start explainer 02 →Share storage securely with a signed, scoped, expiring token — the three SAS types, the services and scopes they cover, stored access policies, and how to revoke.
Start explainer 03 →Go beyond the basics: secure access, networking, data protection, event-driven apps, and storage for AI. New explainers land here as they ship.
Access without keys — managed identities, Microsoft Entra ID, data-plane roles, scope & least privilege, and disabling Shared Key.
Firewall default-deny, service endpoints, private endpoints (Private Link), private DNS, and disabling public access.
Soft delete, versioning, point-in-time restore, immutability (WORM), and SSE / customer-managed keys.
SDK + DefaultAzureCredential + Azurite, event-driven blobs (Event Grid → Functions), and the change feed.
Access tiers, lifecycle auto-tiering, object replication (source → dest), AzCopy, and blob inventory.
ADLS Gen2, Blob as RAG grounding, AI Search indexers, Foundry “on your data” — and where vectors actually live.
Take the free, official Microsoft Learn learning path Store data in Azure — guided modules and knowledge checks that turn what you just watched into real skills.