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Describe Azure File storage

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Describe Azure File storage

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- [Instructor] In this sub-lesson, we are going to review Azure File Storage. Azure File Storage is a fully managed file server in the cloud, and we use it like a network file folder. It is accessed via industry standard protocols such as Server Message Block or SMB, and Network File System or NFS. For Azure File Storage, there are two performance tiers, the standard tier, which uses hard disk-based hardware in a data center, and the premium tier, which uses solid-state disks, which offers greater throughput, but is charged at a higher rate. And in terms of creating Azure File Storage, you create Azure File storage in a storage account, and it can share up to 100 terabytes of data in a single storage account. And data can be distributed across any number of file shares in the account. The maximum size of a single file is one terabyte, but you can set quotas to limit the size of each share. Currently, Azure File Storage supports up to 2,000 concurrent connections per shared file…

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