Storage
Massively scalable, secure cloud storage for your data, apps, and workloads
Get secure cloud storage that protects your data infrastructure while you build apps and create better services for your customers. Integrate your on-premises data with your cloud data to form crucial insights. Scale globally and run your most demanding workloads while meeting compliance and privacy requirements.
Find the storage product you need
| If you want to... | Use this |
|---|---|
| Get scalable and secure storage for your virtual machines | Disk Storage |
| Find massively scalable, secure storage for your unstructured data | Blob storage |
| Get low-cost storage for rarely accessed data | Archive Storage |
| Get secure cloud file shares | File Storage |
| Get secure storage for message-based communication between apps | Queue Storage |
| Secure, ruggedized appliance for Azure data transfer | Data Box |
| Complete a secure, offline migration of large amounts of data into Azure Storage | Data Box |
Customers are doing great things with Azure storage products
Bringing data from the depths
"What Azure Data Box has given us is a platform that we can ship, plug in, extract data, and get to the Azure Cloud pretty easily."
Mining company extracts more value from business processes with digital transformation
"The data will always be there in Azure no matter where you are. Before, it could take months and potentially millions of dollars to replicate infrastructure and recover data after a disaster, in addition to suffering disruption of business operations. Now, we can recover instantly and at no cost."
French grocery chain halves inventory processing time by upgrading to Azure Premium Storage
"We expect to avoid significant excess inventory costs each year thanks to the extra performance delivered by Azure Premium Storage. The speedup in Slim4 lets us achieve just-in-time ordering rather than order more than we need."
What’s new
Get the latest updates on storage in Azure.
Roadmap for storage in Azure
Azure Storage Explorer
Monday, May 21, 2018
Explorer allows users easily manage different storage entities in one place from Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Azure Data Box
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
The Azure Data Box is a secure, ruggedized, tamper resistant appliance created by Microsoft to help customers transfer large amounts of data into Azure Storage.
Apache Kafka on HDInsight with Azure Managed Disks
Monday, July 3, 2017
We're pleased to announce Apache Kafka with Azure Managed Disks Preview on the HDInsight platform. Users will now be able to deploy Kafka clusters with managed disks straight from the Azure portal, with no signup necessary.