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Storage
premium
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
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
field-manual-complete
Blob container
A blob container is the named bucket inside an Azure Storage account where blobs live.
Blob Storage
fundamentals
5 commands
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Storage
complete
Storage account static website
Storage account static website is a Blob Storage feature that serves HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files from the special $web container through a web endpoint. It supports simple static sites without app servers. The endpoint is commonly fronted by CDN or Azure Front Door.
Storage accounts
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Storage account static website, storage account static website, storage-account-static-website, static website hosting, storage static website, $web container
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Containers
premium
ACR retention policy
An ACR retention policy is a registry-level cleanup rule for untagged manifests in Azure Container Registry. When enabled on a supported registry, it schedules untagged manifests for deletion after the configured number of days, helping control storage growth while requiring care because deleted image data cannot be recovered.
Azure Container Registry
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Container Registry retention policy, ACR untagged manifest retention, registry retention policy
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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
premium
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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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Document Intelligence layout model
The Document Intelligence layout model is a prebuilt model that extracts document text, tables, selection marks, structure, and layout information without custom training.
Document Intelligence
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: layout model, prebuilt layout model, document layout analysis, layout analysis model
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Storage
premium
ETag
An ETag is an opaque identifier that represents the current version of a resource and is commonly used for optimistic concurrency checks.
Concurrency and resource state
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: etag
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Uncommitted block
An uncommitted block is a block uploaded to an Azure block blob but not yet included in a committed block list. It is temporary upload state: the bytes are associated with the blob name, but they do not become readable blob content until the client commits them.
Blob Storage
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: staged block, uncommitted blob block, Azure Blob uncommitted block, Put Block staging
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Media
premium field-manual
Media asset
A media asset is a media file container formerly used by Azure Media Services to manage encoded video, audio, and related files. Teams use it when teams maintain or migrate media workloads after Azure Media Services retirement. In plain English, it gives operators a named control for clear inventory of media content, storage dependencies, and migration evidence instead of leaving the decision hidden in a portal setting, script, or deployment file. Treat it as production-ready only when the owner, dependencies, permission boundary, monitoring signal, and rollback evidence are clear.
Azure Media Services legacy assets
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Media asset, Azure Media Services asset, AMS asset, mediaServices asset, video asset, audio asset, media file asset, content asset, Microsoft.Media asset, Azure Media Services and Azure Storage, Azure Media Services legacy assets
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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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Containers
premium
Azure Container Registry
A managed private registry service for building, storing, and managing container images and OCI artifacts for container deployments.
Container images
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: ACR
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Storage
premium
General-purpose v2 storage account
General-purpose v2 storage account is an Azure Storage account resource using the StorageV2 kind to host common storage services under one managed namespace. Teams use it to provide durable storage for applications while centralizing endpoints, redundancy, encryption, lifecycle management, networking, monitoring, and access control. In daily Azure work, it appears when engineers provision blob containers, file shares, queues, tables, static websites, backups, application artifacts, or Data Lake Gen2-enabled storage in a landing zone. It is not a specific blob container, an unlimited performance guarantee, an identity provider, or a safe design unless access, networking, and data protection are configured.
Storage accounts
beginner
5 commands
Aliases: Azure general-purpose v2 storage account, GPv2 storage account, StorageV2 storage account
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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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Containers
premium
Kubernetes StorageClass
A Kubernetes StorageClass defines how persistent storage is dynamically provisioned for persistent volume claims, including the driver, performance tier, reclaim policy, and binding behavior.
Kubernetes storage
Intermediate
5 commands
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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
premium
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
fundamentals
4 commands
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Storage
premium
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
4 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Storage
premium
Filesystem in Data Lake Storage
Filesystem in Data Lake Storage is the top-level container-like namespace in Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 that holds directories and files in Azure.
Data Lake Storage Gen2
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Filesystem in Data Lake Storage, filesystem in data lake storage
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Storage
premium
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
learning-path-anchor
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
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
premium
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
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Containers
premium
Container group
the Azure Container Instances unit where containers share scheduling, lifecycle, local network, exposed endpoints, resources, and storage volumes
Serverless containers
fundamentals
3 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Storage
premium
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
3 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Storage
premium
Container soft delete
the Blob Storage protection feature that lets teams restore deleted containers during a configured retention window
Blob Storage protection
intermediate
3 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Storage
field-manual-complete
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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Containers
field-manual-complete
Container App environment
Microsoft Learn describes a Container Apps environment as a secure boundary around one or more container apps and jobs. The runtime manages the environment by handling OS upgrades, scale operations, failover procedures, resource balancing, shared networking, and observability settings for the workloads that run inside it.
Serverless containers
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Container App environment, app-service-plan, azure-kubernetes-service, azure-monitor, container app environment, container-app-environment, container-apps, container-apps-ingress, container-apps-managed-environment, container-apps-revision, container-apps-secret, container-apps-workload-profile, managed-identity
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Storage analytics logs
Storage Analytics logs are classic Azure Storage logs that record details about successful and failed requests for Blob, Queue, and Table services. They help troubleshoot request-level behavior, but Azure Monitor storage logs are generally preferred for modern monitoring, querying, alerting, and centralized retention.
Storage monitoring
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: classic storage logs, Azure Storage Analytics logging, storage request logs
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Storage blob service properties
Storage blob service properties are account-level Blob service settings such as delete retention, container soft delete, versioning, change feed, last access tracking, default service version, CORS, and static website options. They shape data protection, browser access, recovery behavior, and operational diagnostics for Blob workloads.
Blob Storage configuration
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Blob service properties, storage account blob service settings, blobServices properties
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Storage
field-manual-complete
Storage data protection
Storage data protection is the set of Azure Storage controls that help recover, retain, and prove integrity for blob data. It includes patterns such as soft delete, container restore, versioning, change feed, point-in-time restore, immutable storage, and operational backup when those features match the workload.
Storage accounts
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: storage protection, blob data protection, Azure Storage recovery controls, storage recoverability
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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
field-manual-complete
Storage static website
Azure Storage static website hosting lets a general-purpose v2 or BlockBlobStorage account serve static HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and image files from the special $web container. Operators enable the feature, set index and error documents, and then publish content through the account's web endpoint.
Storage accounts
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Storage static website, static website hosting for storage, $web container website, storage website endpoint
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Storage
complete
Standard storage account
Microsoft Learn describes a standard general-purpose v2 storage account as the recommended account type for most Azure Storage scenarios. It provides a namespace for blobs, Azure Files, queues, tables, and Data Lake Storage capabilities, with standard redundancy choices such as LRS, ZRS, GRS, RA-GRS, GZRS, and RA-GZRS.
Storage accounts
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: standard-storage-account, Standard storage account, standard general-purpose v2 storage account, standard GPv2 storage account, Azure Storage standard account, StorageV2 standard account
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Storage
complete
Static website hosting for storage
Microsoft Learn explains that Azure Storage can host static web content from a general-purpose v2 or BlockBlobStorage account. Enabling the feature creates or uses the $web container, where HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and images are served through the account website endpoint.
Storage account
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: static-website-hosting-for-storage, Static website hosting for storage, Azure Storage static website hosting, storage account static website, Blob service static website, web endpoint for storage
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Storage
complete
Storage account
Microsoft Learn describes an Azure storage account as the resource that contains Azure Storage data objects such as blobs, files, queues, and tables. It provides a unique namespace for data accessible over HTTP or HTTPS, with durability, availability, security, and scalability choices.
Storage account
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: storage-account, Storage account, Azure Storage account, general-purpose storage account, GPv2 storage account, storage account resource
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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
complete
Storage account object replication
Microsoft Learn describes object replication for block blobs as asynchronous copying from a source storage account to a destination account. Policies and rules define the source container, destination container, and object selection, with blob versioning and change feed supporting replication behavior.
Storage accounts
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: blob object replication, Azure Storage object replication, OR policy, cross-account blob replication
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Storage
complete
Storage account replication
Storage account replication is the background copy behavior behind a redundancy choice. It determines whether data is replicated only inside one datacenter, across availability zones, or to a paired region, and whether a secondary location can be read during normal operations.
Storage accounts
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: storage replication, storage account redundancy replication, account replication model, Azure Storage replication
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Storage
complete
Storage account secondary endpoint
A storage account secondary endpoint is the read-only service URL for data replicated to a paired Azure region when the account uses read-access geo-redundant redundancy. Applications use it for planned read fallback, disaster recovery testing, and latency-aware secondary reads. It appears in account properties and should be tested before incidents.
Storage accounts
advanced
5 commands
Aliases: Storage account secondary endpoint, storage account secondary endpoint, storage-account-secondary-endpoint, storage secondary endpoint, account secondary endpoint, RA-GRS secondary endpoint
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Storage
complete
Storage account soft delete
Storage account soft delete is a data protection configuration that keeps deleted blobs, containers, or shares recoverable for a defined retention period. It helps teams recover from accidental deletion or overwrite without immediately restoring from backup. Retention days determine how long recovery remains possible.
Storage accounts
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: Storage account soft delete, storage account soft delete, storage-account-soft-delete, storage soft delete, blob soft delete, container soft delete
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Storage
command-rich
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
command-rich
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
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: No aliases yet
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Storage
premium
Locally redundant storage
Microsoft Learn describes locally redundant storage as Azure Storage redundancy that replicates data within the primary region in a local storage scale unit. LRS is the lowest-cost redundancy option and provides high durability, but it does not protect against regional disasters.
Azure Storage
intermediate
10 commands
Aliases: LRS
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Storage
premium
Service endpoint for Storage
A service endpoint for Storage enables the Microsoft.Storage endpoint on a virtual network subnet and pairs it with storage account network rules. It lets workloads in that subnet reach Azure Storage over the Microsoft backbone while the account firewall allows only approved virtual network sources.
Storage platform
intermediate
6 commands
Aliases: Azure Storage VNet rule, Microsoft.Storage service endpoint, Service endpoint for Storage, Storage service endpoint, service endpoint for storage, service-endpoint-for-storage
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Containers
premium
Container Apps
A serverless Azure service for running containerized apps and jobs without directly operating Kubernetes clusters.
Serverless containers
fundamentals
5 commands
Aliases: Azure Container Apps
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Containers
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Container Apps custom domain
A custom hostname assigned to a Container App ingress endpoint.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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Containers
premium
Container Apps environment variable
An environment variable passed into a Container Apps container.
Azure Container Apps
intermediate
5 commands
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