Availability Zones Be sure to remember these facts regarding Availability Zones: An AZ consists of one or more discrete data centers—each with redundant power, networking, and connectivity—housed in separate facilities. AZs enable you to operate production applications and databases that are more highly available, fault tolerant, and scalable than would be possible from a single…
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Regions – CLF-C02 Exam Study Guide
Regions AWS serves over a million active customers in more than 245 countries and territories. Amazon is steadily expanding its global infrastructure to help customers achieve lower latency and higher throughput and to ensure that their data resides only in the Region they specify. Amazon builds the AWS Cloud infrastructure around Regions and Availability Zones…
Versioning – MS AZ-104 Study Guide
Versioning An Azure storage account provides two primary options for tracking blob objects: versioning and change feed. Versioning can be used to automatically retain previous versions of a blob object. You can choose whether to keep all versions of a blob or, to help with managing stor- age costs, delete versions after a specific number…
Blob-level tiering – MS AZ-104 Study Guide
Blob-level tiering Blobs can be assigned with the desired access tier while you upload them to the container (see Figure 2-42). You can also change access tier among the Hot, Cool, Cold, or Archive tiers(because usage patterns change) without having to move data between accounts. All requests to change tier will take place immediately between…
Manage blobs and containers (Azure portal)
Manage blobs and containers (Azure portal) You can create and manage containers through the Azure portal, Azure Storage Explorer, third-party storage tools, or through the command-line tools. To create a container in the Azure management portal, open a storage account by selecting All Services, Storage Accounts, and then choosing your storage account. Within the storage…
Automatically reconnect after reboot in Windows
Automatically reconnect after reboot in Windows To make the file share automatically reconnect and map to the drive after Windows is rebooted, use the following command (ensuring you replace the placeholder values): cmdkey /add:<storage-account-name>.file.core.windows.net /user:AZURE\<storage- account-name> /pass:<storage-account-key> net use Z: \\\\<storage-account-name>.file.core.windows.net\\<file-share-name> / persistent:yes Connect and mount from Linux Use the mount command (elevated with sudo)…
Create a file share – MS AZ-104 Study Guide
Create a file share To create a new file share using the Azure portal, open an Azure storage account, click File Shares, and then click File Share. In the New File Share blade shown in Figure 2-32, you must provide the file share name and the quota size, which can be a maximum size of…
Upload and download data using AzCopy
Upload and download data using AzCopy You can upload data to Azure Blob Storage using AzCopy. The only condition is that the storage account and destination container should already exist. In the following example, the CreateUserTemplate.csv file will be copied to the destcontainer. This example assumes that the CSV file is in the location that…
Use Storage Explorer – MS AZ-104 Study Guide
Use Storage Explorer Using Storage Explorer, you can manage each of the storage services: Blob Storage, Azure Tables, Queue Storage, and Azure Files. Table 2-4 summarizes the supported operations for each service. TABLE 2-4 Storage Explorer operations Storage service Supported operations Blob Blob containers Create, rename, copy, delete, control public access level, manage leases, and…
Configure storage account encryption
Configure storage account encryption Data in an Azure storage account is encrypted using AES 256-bit encryption and is FIPS 140-2 compliant. Encryption in an Azure storage account is enabled automatically and cannot be disabled. By default, Microsoft manages the keys used to encrypt and decrypt the data. In this sce- nario, Microsoft is responsible for…