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, but you can upgrade a v1 general storage account to v2
• You can switch between access tiers with a Blob storage account and a v2 general storage account, but there is the possibility of additional charges being incurred
• A Blob storage account does not support the 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
• 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 a storage account
• Access tiers are not supported for premium storage accounts
• The archive access tier can only be set at blob level and not the account