Azure Storage

Azure Storage is Microsoft's secure cloud storage service. It holds several kinds of data in one place, from shared files to queued messages and the large volumes of data that busy applications read and write. TrustList files it under cloud storage software.

What Azure Storage offers

• Managed file sharing — file shares that Microsoft runs on the customer's behalf.
• Message queueing — queues that let parts of an application pass messages without waiting on each other.
• Storage for demanding applications — capacity for software that performs heavy input and output.
• Structured data — storage for data organised in tables or defined formats.
• Unstructured data — storage for files and other content without a fixed format.

Key facts

• Vendor: Microsoft
• Delivery: cloud-based, part of Azure
• Security: described as secure storage