RA-GRS), the blob type, accessed, you should also data that is critical to a business storage service, storage consider the costs involved. may drive the decision to have transactions, and the use of GRS, whereas data that is less Your total cost depends on how premium storage will affect critical may suffice with LRS. much you store, the volume of the overall cost of the Azure storage transactions and Data that must be quickly Storage solution. outbound data transfers, and accessed with the highest possible which data redundancy option IOPS may drive the usage of you choose. premium storage, where data without that requirement may accept the use of standard storage. These requirements will necessitate and support the higher costs associated with the storage services. Storage containers can be Decide how you want the data in Deciding how to design and build used to further organize data Azure Storage to be organized. containers is similar to how you in storage accounts. would design and build a folder structure on a file server. It is simply how you want to organize the data. By default, all VHDs will be put into a “vhds” folder, but you can change or specify whatever container structure you want to use. Concurrency settings can be Modern applications usually have You can opt to use optimistic or modified for Azure Storage multiple users viewing and pessimistic concurrency models to accounts. updating data simultaneously. manage access to blobs and This requires developers to think containers in the Blob service. If carefully about how to provide a you do not explicitly specify a predictable experience to their strategy, last writer wins is the end users, particularly for default. scenarios where multiple users For IaaS, concurrency settings do can update the same data. not need to be modified.
RA-GRS), the blob type, storage service, storage transactions, and the use of premium storage will affect the overall cost of the Azure Storage solution. accessed, you should also consider the costs involved. Your total cost depends on how much you store, the volume of storage transactions and outbound data transfers, and which data redundancy option you choose. data that is critical to a business may drive the decision to have GRS, whereas data that is less critical may suffice with LRS. Data that must be quickly accessed with the highest possible IOPS may drive the usage of premium storage, where data without that requirement may accept the use of standard storage. These requirements will necessitate and support the higher costs associated with the storage services. Storage containers can be used to further organize data in storage accounts. Decide how you want the data in Azure Storage to be organized. Deciding how to design and build containers is similar to how you would design and build a folder structure on a file server. It is simply how you want to organize the data. By default, all VHDs will be put into a “vhds” folder, but you can change or specify whatever container structure you want to use. Concurrency settings can be modified for Azure Storage accounts. Modern applications usually have multiple users viewing and updating data simultaneously. This requires developers to think carefully about how to provide a predictable experience to their end users, particularly for scenarios where multiple users can update the same data. You can opt to use optimistic or pessimistic concurrency models to manage access to blobs and containers in the Blob service. If you do not explicitly specify a strategy, last writer wins is the default. For IaaS, concurrency settings do not need to be modified.
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