The main objective of this course is to better understand the large number of options that we have in Azure to store information and to help our customers choose the correct services for their solutions. An existing basic technical knowledge of Azure is required for this course.

Each session will focus on the foundations of the services with additional demos and activities that the student will need to complete as homework.

At the end of this course you will be able to:
- Understand key differences between services
- Identify the different Azure storage options when designing and building solutions
- Select storage services within the Azure environment

The offering in Azure for storing information, focused on 3 main areas and their differences:
• Storage accounts and managed disks
• Relational databases
• Non-relational databases

Concepts covered in this course:
• Storage accounts and managed disks
o Blob Storage
o Table Storage
o Queue Storage
o Azure Files
o Azure Data Lake Version 2
o Managed Disks
o Azure Backup

• Relational databases
o Azure SQL Database
o Azure SQL Managed Instance
o Azure Synapse Analytics
o Azure Database for MariaDB
o Azure Database for PostgreSQL
o Azure Database for MySQL

• Non-relational database
o Azure Cosmos DB (many APIs)
o Azure Cache for Redis