Storage Accounts
Durable, highly available, and massively scalable cloud storage
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Pros
- Low cost per gigabyte
- Low cost for access to hot storage tiers
- Cold storage tiers offer even more inexpensive options
- Secondary indexing (preview)
- High speed, low latency hot storage
- Global replication
- Encryption at rest
- CDN integration
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Cons
- High access costs and latency for cold tiers
- No choice of consistency model for secondary indices