Azure Storage Account tips

The following tips will increase your knowledge about Azure Storage, and will definitely help you when you want to design a storage solution on Azure:

• You cannot switch between an Azure general-purpose storage account and an Azure Blob storage account
• You can switch between access tiers with a Blob storage account, but with the possibility of additional charges being incurred
• A Blob storage account does not support ZRS replication type at the time of writing
• Premium Storage only supports Locally Redundant Storage as a replication type at the time of writing
• Premium Storage is not supported for a Blob storage account at the time of writing
• Azure supports up to 200 storage accounts per subscription by default
• A storage account can store data up to 500 TB
• Azure Storage supports encryption for only two storage services at the time of writing (Blobs and Files), and you can enable it during the storage account creation
• If you are using REST APIs to connect to Azure Storage, you can secure the transfer by enabling that option during the creation of a storage account
• Only lowercase letters and numbers are supported for the name of the storage account