What is an Azure Storage Account?

An Azure Storage account represents the basic unit of Azure, which can be thought of as a virtual container for storing and accessing different types of data objects in the cloud. It takes on the role of a single place to control and administrate your storage in the cloud. The following are some of the features of the Azure Storage Account:

• Blob Storage: This service is primarily intended for the storage of unstructured data, including files, images, videos, and backup. Some of the main advantages of Blob Storage is in handling of large amounts of data and has features for high availability and scalability.
• File Storage: Azure File Storage is a way that enables you to create and use file shares in the cloud just like network file shares do. You are capable of mounting these file shares on Windows, Linux, or macOS systems which offer a familiar environment for the file working.
• Queue Storage: This service allows storing and getting back the messages to make communication between application components that can be distributed to different machines or platforms reliable.
• Table Storage: Azure Table Storage is a key-value store that operates as a NoSQL type of store providing speed and cost-effective storage for structured and non-relational data. It will be suitable for storing and querying large semi-structured data volumes.
• Disk Storage: Azure Disk Storage enables you to develop and operate a persistent disk for a virtual machine in the cloud. These disks can serve the function of primary storage for your virtual machines or as data disks for storing application data.

Cloud development has drastically altered the previously known reality of data storage and access, presently providing organizations of all sizes with scalable and cost-effective solutions. Microsoft Azure, one of the cloud computing platform’s leading services, provides data storage, which is Azure Storage and is a strong and secure one. While creating and properly configuring storage resources requires time and has a high potential for human error, especially when such processes have a high level of complexity, there is an automatic storage infrastructure provisioning option.

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that makes cloud provision of resources and management that involves multiple providers easier, such as Azure. In this way, you can verify reliability, reproducibility, and versioning processes for the Azure Storage systems by defining your infrastructure as code. In the following piece, we aim to walk you through the process required to create an Azure Storage Account via Terraform, as a means to digitalize your infrastructure automation and thus simplify the management of your cloud storage.