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Storage
learning-path-anchor
Data Lake storage account
A storage feature or access model in Data Lake Storage Gen2 that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
advanced
19 commands
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Storage
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Sync group
A sync group is the container that tells Azure File Sync which cloud file share and which Windows Server folders should stay synchronized. Think of it as one file namespace with a hub in Azure and one or more on-premises or edge locations attached to it. If two groups represent different shares or business...
Files, queues, and tables
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: Azure File Sync group, file sync group, sync topology, storage sync group
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Storage
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Table batch operation
A Table batch operation lets an application change several Azure Table entities together instead of sending separate requests and hoping they all succeed. It is useful when records belong to the same partition and must stay consistent, such as a header row plus related detail rows. The important limitation is strict: the entities must...
Table Storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: entity group transaction, Table Storage batch, batch transaction, partition-scoped batch
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Table continuation token
A Table continuation token is the “keep going from here” marker for Azure Table Storage queries. Table queries do not always return every matching entity in one response, especially when the result set is large, the service time limit is reached, or the query crosses partitions. The token tells the client where to resume...
Table Storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Table Storage continuation token, next partition key, next row key, paged table query
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Storage
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Table schema-less design
Table schema-less design means the table gives you a consistent place to store entities, but it does not force every entity to have the same application fields. One record can have Status and ExpirationUtc while another has RetryCount and Region. The required identity fields still matter, especially PartitionKey and RowKey. The design freedom is helpful, but it is not permission to ignore data contracts. Teams still need naming rules, versioning, validation, and reader behavior for missing or older properties.
Table Storage
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: schema-less Table design, schemaless table design, Azure Table sparse schema, Table Storage flexible properties
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Storage
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Table service endpoint
A Table service endpoint is the address your application uses when it talks to Azure Table Storage. For a normal Azure Storage account, it looks like an account-specific table URL. That address is not just a string in a connection setting; it determines DNS resolution, firewall evaluation, private endpoint routing, TLS, SDK configuration, and what operators test during an outage. If the endpoint is wrong, the table might exist and credentials might be valid, but clients still fail to connect.
Table Storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Table endpoint, Table Storage endpoint, storage table endpoint, Table data-plane endpoint
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Storage
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Table Storage
Table Storage is Azure Storage for simple structured NoSQL records. You create tables, store entities, and identify each entity with a PartitionKey and RowKey. It is useful when the data is large, sparse, inexpensive to keep, and usually accessed by known keys. It is not a relational database, search engine, or analytics warehouse. The best fit is operational data that can be denormalized, read directly, updated independently, and kept cheap without requiring joins, stored procedures, or secondary indexes.
Table Storage
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Table Storage, Storage Tables, Azure Storage Tables, Azure Tables storage
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Storage
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Time-based retention
Time-based retention in Azure Blob Storage is an immutability policy that keeps blob data in a write-once, read-many state for a specified retention interval. It can be applied at container or version scope to protect records from modification or deletion until the retention period expires.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Time-based retention, time based retention, Azure Time-based retention, Microsoft Learn Time-based retention, immutability policy, WORM retention, immutable blob retention, retention days, container immutability policy
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Storage
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Primary storage region
The primary storage region is the home region for an Azure Storage account. When an application writes blobs, files, queues, or tables under normal conditions, it writes to the primary region. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in Data redundancy - Azure Storage, but this field-manual definition is intentionally wider than an older short glossary entry because the page must teach what to inspect, what can break, who owns the decision, and which evidence proves the Azure environment is behaving as intended. In field use, start with the technical boundary: Technically.
Storage platform
intermediate
4 commands
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Storage
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Secondary storage region
The secondary storage region is the other region involved when an Azure Storage account uses geo-redundant options such as GRS or GZRS. Under normal conditions, applications write to the primary region, and Azure asynchronously copies data to the secondary region. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in Data redundancy - Azure Storage, but this field-manual definition is intentionally wider than an older short glossary entry because the page must teach what to inspect, what can break, who owns the decision, and which evidence proves the Azure environment is behaving as intended..
Storage platform
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Storage
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Table partition key
A Table partition key is the value that groups related entities in Azure Table Storage. Think of it as the first address line for a record. Entities with the same PartitionKey sit in the same logical partition and can be queried together more efficiently. The PartitionKey combines with RowKey to uniquely identify one entity. Choosing it well is a design decision, not just a...
Storage platform
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Table PartitionKey, Table Storage PartitionKey, Table partition key value, PartitionKey property
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Storage
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Table row key
A Table row key is the unique name of an entity inside one Azure Table partition. PartitionKey gets you to the right group; RowKey identifies the exact record in that group. Together they form the entity primary key. RowKey design often carries an order ID, device ID, timestamp pattern, sequence number, or composite value. It matters because point reads, updates, deletes, duplicate detection, and...
Storage platform
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Table RowKey, Table Storage RowKey, Table row key value, RowKey property
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Storage
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ABFS driver
The ABFS driver is the connector that lets Spark, Hadoop, Databricks, Synapse, and similar tools read and write ADLS Gen2 data using abfs:// or secure abfss:// paths instead of treating the storage account like ordinary blob storage.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
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Access ACL
An access ACL is path-level permission in ADLS Gen2. It decides who can read, write, or traverse a file or directory. It works alongside Azure RBAC, so storage access often depends on both role assignments and ACL entries.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
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Access control list inheritance
ACL inheritance in ADLS Gen2 means new files and folders can receive default permissions from a parent directory. It is not a magic fix for existing data; changing a default ACL affects future children unless you also update existing paths.
Azure Storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: ACL inheritance
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Storage
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Access tier
An access tier is the storage temperature for blob data. Hot is for frequent access, cool and cold are for less frequent access, and archive is cheapest to store but slowest to retrieve. Choose tiers based on real lifecycle and retrieval needs.
Blob Storage
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Account SAS
An account SAS is a powerful storage access token signed with the account key. It can grant limited access across multiple storage services, but because it is key-based and hard to audit, keep permissions narrow and expiry short.
Blob Storage
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Storage
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Append blob
a Blob Storage object optimized for adding data to the end, commonly used for logs, audit streams, and ordered write patterns.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
2 commands
Aliases: Append blob, append blob
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Append Block
the Blob Storage operation that commits a new block of data to the end of an existing append blob.
Blob Storage
intermediate
12 commands
Aliases: Append Block, append block
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Storage
premium
Approximate message count
Approximate message count is the queue-depth estimate you use when checking whether an Azure Storage queue is backing up, draining normally, or ready for scale decisions. It is not a perfect inventory of every message; it is a practical signal for operations. Teams use it to decide whether workers are falling behind, whether a.
Queue Storage
fundamentals
2 commands
Aliases: ApproximateMessagesCount, Queue approximate message count, x-ms-approximate-messages-count, Queue depth estimate
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Storage
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Archive access tier
Archive access tier is the low-cost, offline storage tier for blob data that you keep for long retention but do not need to read quickly. It is useful for backups, compliance records, historical exports, and evidence that must remain available eventually, not immediately. The tradeoff is simple: storage is cheaper, but retrieval takes planning.
Blob Storage
intermediate
2 commands
Aliases: Azure Blob archive tier, Archive tier, Blob archive access tier
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Archive rehydration
Archive rehydration is the restore process for data that was placed in Azure Blob Storage archive tier. Until rehydration finishes, the blob is offline and cannot be read like a normal file. Teams use rehydration when auditors, analysts, applications, or recovery teams need archived data back online. The decision is not just technical; it.
Blob Storage
intermediate
2 commands
Aliases: Blob rehydration, Rehydrate archived blob, Archive restore, Rehydration priority
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Storage
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AzCopy
AzCopy is the Microsoft command-line utility used to move data into, out of, and between Azure Storage services such as blobs and file shares. In Azure, teams encounter it when storage teams migrate data, seed analytics lakes, copy backups, or synchronize large folders without writing a custom transfer program. The useful question is what behavior
Blob Storage
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: AzCopy v10, Azure Storage AzCopy, azcopy copy, azcopy sync
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Storage
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Azure Container Storage
A cloud-based volume management, deployment, and orchestration service built natively for containers and integrated with Kubernetes persistent volumes.
Container storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: ACS for containers
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Storage
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Azure Data Box
An Azure service that transfers large amounts of data to or from Azure by shipping secure, managed storage devices for offline migration.
Data transfer
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Data Box
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Storage
premium
Azure Elastic SAN
A cloud-native Azure storage area network service that provides scalable, cost-effective, high-performance block storage volumes for compute workloads.
Block storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Elastic SAN
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Storage
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Azure file share
An Azure file share is a managed cloud share hosted by Azure Files. It behaves like a network file share, but Microsoft runs the storage service instead of your team maintaining file servers, disks, operating systems, and failover.
Files, queues, and tables
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Files share
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Storage
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Azure File Sync
Azure File Sync syncs Azure file shares with Windows Server file servers so users keep familiar local access while data is centralized in Azure Files. It helps infrastructure teams modernize branch and data center file services without forcing every user and application to change paths on day one. You see it when Windows file server migrations, branch caching, cloud tiering, disaster recovery staging, or phased moves to Azure Files. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
Hybrid file services
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: File Sync, Storage Sync Service
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Storage
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Azure Files backup
Azure Files backup protects Azure file shares using Azure Backup policies, recovery points, snapshots, and supported vaulted backup options. It helps backup and platform teams recover shared file data after accidental deletion, ransomware, or operator mistakes without managing separate backup servers or unreviewed snapshot scripts. You see it when business file shares need retention, recovery testing, policy enforcement, ransomware recovery, or evidence for data protection audits. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure file share backup, Azure Backup for Azure Files
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Storage
premium
Azure Files NFS
Azure Files NFS is the Azure Files capability for mounting managed file shares from Linux clients using the NFS protocol. It helps Linux, analytics, and platform teams run shared-file workloads without building their own NFS servers without maintaining NAS hardware or custom Linux file servers. You see it when Linux applications need shared storage, analytics jobs need common paths, or teams want managed NFS access with Azure storage operations. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
NFS file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: NFS Azure file shares, Azure Files NFS protocol
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Azure Files NFS share
Azure Files NFS share is a specific Azure file share created for NFS access rather than SMB access. It helps Linux application owners and storage teams give workloads a managed shared POSIX-style file path without operating separate NFS appliances for every project. You see it when research clusters, Linux application farms, container platforms, or data processing systems need one shared path across many clients. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
NFS file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: NFS file share, NFS Azure file share
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premium
Azure Files premium share
Azure Files premium share is an Azure Files share backed by premium storage for workloads that need predictable capacity, IOPS, and throughput. It helps application and storage architects give latency-sensitive file workloads managed storage with provisioned performance without guessing whether standard file shares can meet peak demand. You see it when profile containers, engineering tools, build systems, analytics staging, or transactional applications require faster shared file access. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
Premium file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Premium Azure file share, SSD Azure file share
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Storage
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Azure Files private endpoint
Azure Files private endpoint connects Azure file share traffic to a storage account through a private IP address in a virtual network. It helps network, security, and storage teams keep SMB or NFS access on private network paths without exposing file access directly over public endpoints. You see it when regulated workloads need private access, branch users connect through VPN, or applications must mount shares without public storage exposure. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
Private connectivity
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Private endpoint for Azure Files, Azure Files Private Link
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Azure Files SMB
Azure Files SMB is the Azure Files capability for mounting managed file shares through the Server Message Block protocol. It helps Windows, app, and infrastructure teams move familiar mapped-drive and application share patterns to Azure without running and patching Windows file servers for common shared storage. You see it when Windows users need mapped drives, apps expect UNC paths, profile containers need shared storage, or branch offices need cloud-backed shares. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
SMB file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: SMB Azure file shares, Azure Files SMB protocol
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Azure Files SMB share
Azure Files SMB share is a specific Azure file share exposed through SMB for users, Windows applications, or services that need a shared UNC path. It helps application owners and desktop teams provide a managed mapped-drive style location without building another Windows Server just for one share. You see it when department folders, Windows application data, FSLogix profiles, installation repositories, or shared reports need cloud-backed SMB access. It still needs ownership, network design, monitoring, and recovery planning. Operators need repeatable evidence for deployment, protection, troubleshooting, and reviews, not screenshots or tribal knowledge.
SMB file shares
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: SMB file share, SMB Azure file share
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Storage
premium
Azure HPC Cache
Azure HPC Cache was a managed Azure file-caching service for HPC workloads; Microsoft retired the service on September 30, 2025, so current work should focus on migration or historical inventory.
Retired HPC caching
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: HPC Cache, Azure Storage Cache
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Storage
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Azure Managed Lustre
Azure Managed Lustre is a managed parallel file system for high-performance computing and AI workloads that need scalable, low-latency file storage in Azure.
Parallel file systems
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Managed Lustre, Azure Managed Lustre File System, AMLFS
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Storage
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Azure NetApp Files
Azure NetApp Files provides managed enterprise SMB and NFS volumes in Azure for performance-sensitive file workloads.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
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Storage
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Azure Site Recovery vault
An Azure Site Recovery vault is a Recovery Services vault used to manage replication, failover, and recovery metadata for Site Recovery.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ASR vault, Azure Site Recovery vault, Recovery Services vault, Site Recovery Recovery Services vault
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Azure Storage Actions
Azure Storage Actions is a fully managed platform for automating data management tasks across Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage objects without provisioning separate compute.
Storage platform
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Azure Storage Discovery
Azure Storage Discovery is a fully managed service that provides enterprise-wide visibility into Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage estates for analysis, optimization, security, and operations.
Storage platform
intermediate
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Azure Storage Explorer
Azure Storage Explorer is a standalone app for Windows, macOS, and Linux that helps users connect to and manage Azure Storage data and resources through a graphical interface.
Storage tooling
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Azure Storage Mover
Azure Storage Mover is a fully managed migration service that helps move files and folders from on-premises or AWS S3 sources to Azure Storage while minimizing workload downtime.
Storage migration
intermediate
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Azure Tables API
Azure Cosmos DB for Table provides an API for table-style key-value data where entities are identified by partition key and row key, supporting applications written for Azure Table storage that need premium capabilities.
Table Storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Table API, Cosmos DB for Table API, Azure Table Storage API
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Backup item
A backup item is a protected data source or backup instance in Azure Backup that is associated with a vault, policy, retention settings, and recoverable restore points.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
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Backup job
A backup job is an Azure Backup operation record for work such as protecting, backing up, restoring, stopping protection, or validating recovery activity in a vault.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
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Backup policy
A backup policy defines when Azure Backup runs protection jobs and how long recovery points are retained for a protected workload.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
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Blob access condition
Blob access condition is documented by Microsoft as part of the Blob Storage area in Azure.
Blob Storage
intermediate
3 commands
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Blob batch operation
A storage feature or access model in Blob Storage that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
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Blob change feed
A storage feature or access model in Blob Storage that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Blob Storage
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Blob content type
A storage feature or access model in Blob Storage that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Blob Storage
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Blob copy operation
A storage feature or access model in Blob Storage that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Blob Storage
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Blob ETag
A value used for optimistic concurrency checks on blob operations.
Azure Storage
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: ETag
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Blob immutability policy
A blob immutability policy is a time-based retention or legal hold configuration that protects blob data from modification or deletion while the policy is in effect.
Blob Storage
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Blob index tag
A blob index tag is a key-value attribute assigned to a blob and automatically indexed so applications and operators can find blobs by tag conditions.
Blob Storage
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Blob index tags
Blob index tags are key-value attributes on blob data that Azure Storage indexes and exposes for querying across containers in a storage account.
Blob Storage
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Blob inventory
Blob inventory is an Azure Storage feature that generates daily or weekly CSV or Apache Parquet reports listing containers, blobs, versions, snapshots, and selected properties.
Blob Storage
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Blob last access time tracking
Blob last access time tracking is a Blob service setting that records a LastAccessTime property for blobs when supported access operations occur.
Blob Storage
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Blob lease
A blob lease is an exclusive lock on a blob for write and delete operations, acquired for 15 to 60 seconds or indefinitely until released or broken.
Blob Storage
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Blob legal hold
A blob legal hold is an immutability control that protects blob data from modification or deletion until the hold is explicitly removed by an authorized user.
Blob Storage
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Blob lifecycle rule
A blob lifecycle rule is one rule inside a lifecycle management policy that filters blobs and applies actions such as tiering or deletion after defined conditions are met.
Blob Storage
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Blob metadata
Blob metadata is a set of user-defined name-value pairs stored with a blob or container and returned with resource properties when requested.
Blob Storage
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Blob public access
Blob public access is optional anonymous read access for blobs or containers when the storage account and container configuration allow it.
Blob Storage
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Blob public access level
Blob public access level is the container setting that controls whether anonymous clients can read no data, blobs only, or both container listings and blobs.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
3 commands
Aliases: Blob public access level, public access level, blob public access level
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Blob rehydration
Blob rehydration is the process of bringing an archived blob back to an online access tier so it can be read, downloaded, or modified.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
3 commands
Aliases: Blob rehydration, rehydration, blob rehydration
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Blob service endpoint
Blob service endpoint is the address used to reach a storage account’s Blob service and is also the network target controlled by firewall, private endpoint, or service endpoint rules.
Storage platform
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3 commands
Aliases: Blob service endpoint, service endpoint, blob service endpoint
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Blob snapshot
A Blob snapshot is a read-only version of a blob captured at a specific point in time and addressable by the base blob URI plus a timestamp.
Blob Storage
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3 commands
Aliases: Blob snapshot, snapshot, blob snapshot
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Blob storage account
A Blob storage account is the Azure Storage account that provides the namespace, security boundary, network configuration, redundancy, and service endpoint for Blob data.
Storage accounts
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Aliases: Blob storage account, storage account, blob storage account
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Blob version
A Blob version is a distinct saved state of a blob, identified by a version ID, that can be read or restored when Blob versioning is enabled.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
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Aliases: Blob version, version, blob version
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Blob versioning
Blob versioning is an Azure Storage data protection feature that automatically keeps previous versions of block blobs when they are modified or deleted. Microsoft Learn explains that version IDs let teams list, read, restore, or manage prior blob states alongside soft delete and lifecycle policies.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
3 commands
Aliases: Blob versioning, versioning, blob versioning
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BlobFuse
BlobFuse is an open-source virtual file system driver that mounts Azure Blob Storage containers as Linux file systems and translates file operations into Blob REST API calls.
Blob Storage
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Block blob
A block blob is an Azure Blob Storage object type optimized for uploading and storing large amounts of text or binary data as independently uploaded blocks.
Blob Storage
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Block list
A block list is the ordered set of committed or uncommitted blocks that Azure Storage uses to assemble or inspect a block blob.
Blob Storage
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Cloud endpoint
In Azure File Sync, a cloud endpoint is a pointer to an Azure file share; server endpoints synchronize with the cloud endpoint, making the file share the sync hub.
Files, queues, and tables
intermediate
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Cloud tiering
A storage feature or access model in Files, queues, and tables that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Files, queues, and tables
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Cold access tier
A storage feature or access model in Blob Storage that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Blob Storage
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Committed block
a block in Azure Blob Storage that has been chosen from the uploaded block list and finalized as part of a block blob
Blob Storage
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Container access level
the Blob Storage container setting that decides whether anonymous clients can read no data, individual blobs, or container listings and blobs
Storage platform
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Container public access level
the Blob Storage container setting that decides whether anonymous reads are private, blob-only, or container-level
Blob Storage access
intermediate
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Container soft delete
the Blob Storage protection feature that lets teams restore deleted containers during a configured retention window
Blob Storage protection
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Cool access tier
A storage feature or access model in Blob Storage that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
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Cross-region restore
an Azure Backup capability that lets teams restore protected backup data into the paired secondary region when the vault is configured for it.
Backup and recovery
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Azure Backup Cross Region Restore, CRR, secondary region restore
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Data Lake analytics workload
A production analytics workload that stores, transforms, governs, and serves large data sets from a data lake using Azure services such as ADLS Gen2, Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse, or Fabric.
Data Lake Storage
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Data Lake bronze layer
The raw ingestion layer in a lakehouse or medallion architecture where source data first lands with minimal transformation and strong traceability.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
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Data Lake curated zone
The governed, consumer-ready area of a data lake where cleaned, conformed, and documented datasets are served for reporting, analytics, AI, or downstream applications.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
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Data Lake directory
A directory in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is a hierarchical namespace path segment that can contain files and child directories and can have access controls applied.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ADLS directory, Data Lake folder, Gen2 directory, lake folder
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Data Lake file system
A Data Lake file system is the top-level container namespace in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 that holds directories and files for analytics workloads.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ADLS file system, Data Lake Storage file system, Gen2 file system, lake container
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Data Lake filesystem
Data Lake filesystem is the compact API and CLI naming for the ADLS Gen2 file-system resource that contains directories and files.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: filesystem, ADLS filesystem, storage fs, Azure storage fs
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Data Lake Gen2 endpoint
A Data Lake Gen2 endpoint is the DFS endpoint on a storage account used by Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 APIs, ABFS URIs, and hierarchical namespace operations.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADLS Gen2 endpoint, DFS endpoint, dfs.core.windows.net endpoint, Data Lake endpoint
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Data Lake gold layer
The Data Lake gold layer is the business-ready medallion layer where curated, aggregated, and governed data is published for analytics, reporting, and decision support.
Medallion lakehouse architecture
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: gold layer, gold zone, curated business layer, trusted reporting layer
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Data Lake ingestion zone
A Data Lake ingestion zone is the controlled landing area where source data first arrives before validation, transformation, enrichment, or publication.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: landing zone, raw ingestion zone, lake landing area, ingest zone
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Data Lake namespace
A Data Lake namespace is the hierarchical address space in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 that organizes file systems, directories, files, and paths for analytics.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADLS namespace, hierarchical namespace, HNS namespace, lake namespace
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Data Lake partition folder
A Data Lake partition folder is a directory pattern, often key=value, that groups files by values such as date, region, tenant, or business domain for efficient reads.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: partition folder, Hive-style partition folder, date partition folder, lake partition path
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Data Lake path ACL
A Data Lake path ACL is the access control list applied to a file or directory path in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 for fine-grained permissions.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: ADLS path ACL, Data Lake path access control, path access control list, data-lake-path-ac
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Data Lake raw zone
A storage feature or access model in Data Lake Storage Gen2 that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
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Data Lake silver layer
A storage feature or access model in Data Lake Storage Gen2 that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
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Default ACL
A default ACL in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 is an ACL entry on a directory that new child files and directories inherit when they are created under that directory.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: default access control list, ADLS Gen2 default ACL, directory default ACL
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Dequeue count
Dequeue count is the Queue Storage message property that records how many times a message has been retrieved for processing, helping consumers identify retry loops, stuck work, and poison-message conditions.
Queue Storage
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: queue message dequeue count, Azure Queue dequeue count, message dequeue count, queue trigger dequeue count
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Disable Shared Key authorization
Disable Shared Key authorization is a storage account setting that prevents requests from being authorized with account keys and pushes supported access toward Microsoft Entra authorization.
Storage security
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: disallow Shared Key, AllowSharedKeyAccess false, prevent Shared Key access, disable storage account key access
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Entity group transaction
An entity group transaction is an atomic batch of Table service operations on entities in the same table and with the same PartitionKey value.
Table Storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: entity group transaction
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