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Storage
premium
SFTP for Azure Blob Storage
SFTP for Azure Blob Storage lets clients connect to a storage account through SSH File Transfer Protocol for file access, transfer, and management. It requires a supported storage account with hierarchical namespace enabled, then local users and scoped permissions control access to containers and paths.
Storage platform
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Blob Storage SFTP, SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage, storage account SFTP, Blob SFTP endpoint, SFTP for Azure Blob Storage
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Storage
premium
SFTP for Blob Storage
SFTP for Blob Storage is the storage-account feature that exposes blob containers to SFTP clients after hierarchical namespace is enabled. Administrators configure local users, authentication methods, home directories, and permission scopes so external or internal clients can transfer files without custom SFTP infrastructure.
Blob Storage
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Blob Storage SFTP, SFTP for Blob Storage, SFTP landing zone, storage SFTP local user, SFTP-enabled storage account
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Storage
premium
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
intermediate
4 commands
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Storage
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NFS 3.0 for Blob Storage
NFS 3.0 for Blob Storage means an Azure Blob Storage protocol option that lets Linux clients mount blob containers through NFS version 3. You see it when teams connect analytics jobs, HPC workloads, migration tools, or Linux applications that expect mounted file paths. Think of it as a storage protocol choice with account, namespace, and network requirements. It matters because the setting changes how teams design, secure, operate, and troubleshoot the workload. Before changing it in production, know the owner, dependency, evidence, expected result, and rollback path.
Blob Storage
advanced
4 commands
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Storage
premium
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
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
advanced
3 commands
Aliases: Blob storage account, storage account, blob storage account
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Storage
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Blob Storage
Blob Storage is Azure object storage for massive amounts of unstructured data such as documents, images, video, backups, logs, and application files.
Storage
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Blob Storage, blob-storage, blob, blob-container, blob-access-tier, blob-soft-delete, blob-versioning, storage-account, account-sas, private-endpoint-for-storage, azure-files, data-lake-storage-gen2, queue-storage
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Web
premium
Blob trigger
Microsoft Learn describes the Blob Storage trigger for Azure Functions as a binding that starts a function when a new or updated blob is detected. The blob content is passed to code, letting serverless workloads react to files, documents, images, data feeds, or storage events.
Azure Functions
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Blob trigger, trigger, blob trigger
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Storage
premium
Immutable blob versioning
Immutable blob versioning is version-level immutability for Azure Blob Storage, where protected blob versions can be retained in a write-once, read-many state.
Blob Storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Immutable blob versioning, immutable blob versioning, immutable-blob-versioning
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Storage
premium
Immutable storage
Immutable storage is Azure Blob Storage configured to protect data in a write-once, read-many state so it cannot be modified or deleted during a retention period.
Data protection
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Immutable storage, immutable storage, immutable-storage
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Azure AI Search data source
Azure AI Search data source is the connection definition an Azure AI Search indexer uses to read content from a supported external data store.
AI platform and search
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Search data source, SearchIndexerDataSourceConnection, data source connection, indexer data source, search data source connection
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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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Storage
premium
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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Storage
premium
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
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
premium
Blob ETag
A value used for optimistic concurrency checks on blob operations.
Azure Storage
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: ETag
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Storage
premium
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
intermediate
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
intermediate
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
intermediate
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
intermediate
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
intermediate
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
intermediate
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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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Storage
premium
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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Storage
premium
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
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: Blob service endpoint, service endpoint, blob service endpoint
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
Aliases: Blob snapshot, snapshot, blob snapshot
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Storage
premium
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
3 commands
Aliases: Blob version, version, blob version
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Storage
premium
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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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Data Lake Storage Gen2
Data Lake Storage Gen2 is Azure Blob Storage with a hierarchical namespace enabled for analytics workloads. Microsoft Learn describes it as combining file-system style directories, ACLs, and large-scale throughput with Blob Storage durability, security, lifecycle, tiering, and ecosystem compatibility for big data scenarios.
Analytics storage
fundamentals
8 commands
Aliases: ADLS Gen2
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Storage
verified
Page blob
An Azure page blob is a blob made of 512-byte pages and optimized for frequent random read and write operations. It can grow up to 8 TiB and is commonly associated with virtual hard disks and disk-like storage workloads. and recovery planning.
Blob storage types
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure page blob, random access blob, VHD page blob, disk-backed blob
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Storage encryption scope
A storage encryption scope is a named Azure Blob Storage encryption boundary that can protect blobs with either Microsoft-managed keys or customer-managed keys. It lets teams apply different encryption key choices to containers or individual blobs inside the same storage account when isolation or compliance requires it.
Storage accounts
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: blob encryption scope, Azure Storage encryption scope, scoped blob encryption, container encryption scope
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Storage
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Storage lifecycle management
Policy-based automation that tiers or deletes Azure Blob Storage data as it ages or changes use.
Storage lifecycle
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Blob lifecycle management, storage account lifecycle policy, blob lifecycle management policy, storage retention tiering policy
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Storage
complete
Storage account lifecycle management
A storage feature or access model in Storage accounts that helps teams store, protect, move, and govern application or analytics data with clearer ownership, safety, and operational context.
Storage accounts
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: blob lifecycle management, storage lifecycle policy, Azure Storage management policy, blob tiering policy
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Blob soft delete
Blob soft delete keeps deleted or overwritten blob data recoverable for a retention period, giving operators a safety net for accidental changes.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
4 commands
Aliases: soft delete for blobs, blob delete retention, deleted blob restore
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Blob
A blob is an object stored in Azure Blob Storage, usually inside a container in a storage account. Microsoft Learn describes Blob Storage as optimized for massive amounts of unstructured data, including documents, images, logs, backups, media, application files, and other binary or text content.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
3 commands
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Storage
learning-path-anchor
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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Analytics
premium
PolyBase
PolyBase lets a SQL engine work with files stored outside the database, especially in Azure Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage. In Azure Synapse dedicated SQL pool, teams use it to define external data sources, file formats, and external tables, then load data into warehouse tables with T-SQL. It is useful when data lands in a lake first and the warehouse needs a scalable way to read or ingest it. PolyBase is not a pipeline by itself; it is the SQL-side external data access pattern.
Synapse Analytics
advanced
6 commands
Aliases: polybase, PolyBase
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Storage
premium
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
fundamentals
5 commands
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Integration
premium
Event Hubs capture
Event Hubs Capture automatically writes streaming data from an event hub to Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake Storage based on configured time or size intervals. Teams use it to archive raw event streams to storage for analytics, compliance, replay, or lakehouse ingestion without writing a separate capture consumer. It is not a consumer group, a checkpoint, a data transformation job, or a guarantee that downstream analytics has already processed the archived files. In production, confirm the namespace, event hub, partitions, capacity, identity, network path, consumer group, checkpoint behavior, monitoring, and owner before treating the stream as safe.
Event Hubs
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Event Hubs Capture, Capture Streaming Events, Event Hubs archive capture
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Storage
premium
Hot access tier
The hot access tier is an Azure Blob Storage tier optimized for data that is actively used and read frequently.
Azure Blob Storage
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Hot access tier, hot access tier
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Search data source
A search data source is an Azure AI Search indexer object that describes where external content comes from. It specifies the supported source type, connection information, credentials or identity, container or query, and sometimes change or deletion detection used by indexers.
Azure AI Search
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure AI Search data source, indexer data source, SearchIndexerDataSourceConnection, data source connection, Azure Search data source object
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Storage
premium
Hierarchical namespace
Hierarchical namespace is a storage account capability that organizes blobs as directories and files so Data Lake Storage Gen2 can support file-system style operations.
Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: ADLS Gen2 hierarchical namespace, HNS enabled storage account, Hierarchical namespace, hierarchical-namespace
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