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Storage
verified
Page range
A page range identifies byte offsets that contain valid data within an Azure page blob or page blob snapshot. The Get Page Ranges operation returns active ranges, and snapshot comparisons can show changed ranges for incremental backup or copy workflows.
Page blob internals
advanced
4 commands
Aliases: page blob range, valid page range, active page range, changed page range
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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
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
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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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
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
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
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 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 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
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
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
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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Storage
field-manual-complete
Premium block blob account
A premium block blob account is a special Azure Storage account for blob workloads that care more about low latency and high transaction rates than the lowest storage price.
Storage accounts
fundamentals
5 commands
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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
Blob access tier
Blob access tier controls the storage cost, retrieval cost, and availability behavior for blob data across hot, cool, cold, and archive choices.
Blob Storage
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: Blob tier, storage access tier, archive tier
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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
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
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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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse workspace managed identity
A Synapse workspace managed identity is the workspace's own identity in Microsoft Entra ID. Instead of saving passwords, keys, or connection strings inside pipelines and notebooks, Synapse can use this identity to ask for tokens and reach trusted Azure resources. It is commonly used for Data Lake Storage, Key Vault, SQL, and linked service...
Synapse Analytics
intermediate
8 commands
Aliases: Synapse managed service identity, Synapse MSI, workspace system-assigned identity, Synapse workspace identity
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AI and Machine Learning
premium
Document classifier
A document classifier is a Document Intelligence custom classification model that identifies document types or pages before extraction and routing.
Document Intelligence
intermediate
5 commands
Aliases: custom classifier, Document Intelligence classifier, classification model, page classifier
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Analytics
learning-path-anchor
Synapse SQL external table
A Synapse SQL external table is database metadata that lets Synapse SQL query files stored outside the database, usually in Azure Storage or ADLS Gen2. It references an external data source, file format, and file location for governed SQL analytics.
Synapse Analytics
fundamentals
6 commands
Aliases: external table in Synapse, Synapse external table, SQL external table, external table over lake files
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Management and Governance
premium
Azure control plane
The Azure control plane is the part of Azure you use to manage resources rather than consume the application or data inside them. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in Azure control plane and data plane, 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, the Azure control plane is handled by.
Azure Resource Manager
intermediate
4 commands
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Management and Governance
premium
Azure data plane
The Azure data plane is the part of Azure you use after a resource exists, when you interact with the capability that resource provides. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in Azure control plane and data plane, 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, data-plane operations are service-specific operations against.
Azure Resource Manager
fundamentals
4 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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Management and Governance
premium
Management-plane operation
A management-plane operation is an Azure control action. It is what you do when you create a virtual machine, update a storage account setting, assign a role, list resources, validate a deployment, or delete a resource group. Microsoft Learn anchors this term in What is Azure Resource Manager?, 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.
Azure Resource Manager
fundamentals
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Identity
learning-path-anchor
System-assigned managed identity
A system-assigned managed identity lets one Azure resource authenticate without a stored password, client secret, or certificate managed by your app team. You turn it on for a resource such as a web app, function, virtual machine, data factory, or automation account. Azure creates an identity for that resource, and the resource can request...
Managed identities
intermediate
4 commands
Aliases: system assigned identity, resource managed identity, SystemAssigned identity, managed service identity
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