Importing and Exporting Data to Azure

In the previous chapter, we covered the different types of storage that are available to you in Azure and when you should use them. We also covered how to install and use Azure Storage Explorer for to manage your data.  

This chapter proceeds with the second part of Implementing and Managing Storage objective. In the first part of this chapter, we are going to create storage accounts, by configuring Azure Blob Storage. The second part of this chapter is going to cover how you can import and export data to and from Azure. You will learn how to import and export data using Azure Job. The third part of this chapter is focused on content delivery networks (CDNs) in Azure. You will learn how to create and configure a CDN, which can be used for caching your static content on the edge servers in Azure. In the last part of this chapter, we will briefly look at Azure Data Box.

The following topics will be covered in this chapter:

• Configuring and using Azure Blob Storage
• Creating import into, and export from Azure Job
• Azure CDN
• Configuring Azure CDN endpoints
• Azure Data Box