Azure Storage is an important part of the Microsoft Azure developer toolkit. In this course, Anton Delsink provides a high-level overview of what Azure Storage is, as well as a brief look at the options available to developers: table, file, queue, and blob-based storage. Anton starts the course with a tour of the Azure portal and an explanation of how to create both a general-purpose storage account and a Blob storage account. Next, he covers important security and deployment topics that apply across all storage options. To wrap up, he briefly goes over each storage area. For a more in-depth exploration of each storage area—files, tables, blobs, and queues—check out additional courses in the Azure Storage for Developers series.

Topics include:

Creating general-purpose and Blob storage accounts

Shared key authentication

Using shared access signatures (SAS)

Granting privileges with stored access policies

Encrypting data at rest

Deploying Azure storage accounts from the command line

Deploying Azure storage accounts using PowerShell

Storage types, including blobs, tables, queues, and files