Files Without Borders

Azure Files and Azure File Sync are Microsoft’s classic file shares for clients on Windows, Linux, and macOS in the cloud. We introduce you to their services and guide you through their setup.

Christian Knermann

The unabated trend toward cloud-based infrastructures has given rise to many new web applications and services that differ in terms of their architecture from the legacy client-server model. Storage management is no exception, with object storage for virtually unlimited volumes of data on the rise in the form of services that offer compatibility with Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) – or at least similar functionality. Microsoft is also looking to become a serious player in this field, offering blob containers, queues, and tables as storage for cloud-native applications in the Azure cloud. Azure Files is Microsoft’s way of implementing serverless, fully managed file shares in the cloud to integrate clients on Windows, macOS, and Linux over the Server Message Block (SMB) or Network File System (NFS) protocol [1]. (See the…

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