# Overview
Microsoft Azure Storage provides secure cloud solutions for storing, processing, and managing data, while supporting hybrid and multicloud deployments. It offers a range of tools for cloud journey planning and financial guidance, enabling businesses to innovate effectively.
# Key Features
Azure Storage in a cloud data center is equipped with several notable features to meet diverse needs:
- **Highly Scalable**: Manage large data volumes across different storage types, such as blob, disk, and file storage.
- **Secure**: Offers encryption and advanced security measures to protect stored data.
- **Integrated AI Services**: Includes features to add cognitive capabilities to applications.
- **Global Accessibility**: Data can be stored in multiple regions, ensuring redundancy and accessibility.
- **Cost-effective**: Supports various pricing models, including reserved capacity to lower costs.
# Importance
In an Azure Cloud Data Center, using Azure Storage is crucial for several reasons:
- **Reliability**: Ensures that data is available and accessible at any time.
- **Flexibility**: Supports a variety of data types and workloads which aids in seamless application development and deployment.
- **Security**: Provides robust data security compliance options, critical for enterprise use.
# Use Cases
Azure Storage can be utilized in various scenarios within an Azure Data Center:
- **Data Backup and Recovery**: Provides a secure location for backing up critical data and disaster recovery.
- **Big Data and Analytics**: Supports the storage and processing needs of large datasets for analytics workloads.
- **Web and Mobile Application Hosting**: Offers storage solutions that support cloud-based apps with varying data demands.
- **Media Content Storage**: Ideal for storage and streaming of large volumes of media content across the globe.
# Data Redundancy
## Redundancy in a primary region
Data in a storage account is always replicated three times within a primary region
[[Locally Redundant Storage]]
[[Zone-Redundant Storage]]
## Redundancy in a secondary region
Copying your storage account to a secondary region ensures that your data remains durable during a complete regional outage or a disaster in which the primary region isn't recoverable
[[Geo-Redundant Storage]]
[[Geo-Zone-Redundant Storage]]
# Data Management
[[Lifecycle Management Policies]]
[[Object Replication]]
## Resources
- [Storage account overview - Azure Storage | Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-account-overview)
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