Azure for Architects: Design a Storage Strategy

Introduction

• Architecting an Azure Storage strategy
• What you should know

1. Azure Storage for Files and Objects

• Exploring Azure Storage options
• Choosing between managed and unmanaged storage
• Choosing between standard and premium storage
• Selecting storage access tiers
• Storage lifecycle
• Understanding storage redundancy and backup
• Read-access geo-redundant storage
• Managing storage performance and scaling
• Designing a storage provisioning strategy

2. Azure Storage Services

• Create a storage account
• Understanding blob storage
• Understanding file storage
• Understanding table storage
• Understanding queue storage
• Understanding additional Azure Storage services
• Estimating Azure Storage costs

3. Using Storage with Virtual Machines

• Storing VM data onto data disks
• Creating an Azure data disk
• Moving data disks between VMs
• Azure data disk best practices

4. Storage Security

• Understanding the challenges of Azure security
• Role-based access control model of Azure security
• Managing Azure Storage access keys
• Using Azure Key Vault for security
• Creating shared access signatures
• Enabling virtual network service endpoints
• Encrypting Azure Storage data
• Designing a storage access strategy

5. Tools for Managing Storage

• Using Azure Storage Explorer
• Copy files with AzCopy
• Using PowerShell and CLI to access storage

Conclusion

• Next steps