Microsoft's command-line utility for moving data into, out of and between storage accounts; queue management and copying a running VM are outside what it can do.
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Terms in this definition
- General-purpose v1
The older storage account kind (
Storage), which lacks access tiers, Archive and premium file shares and retires on 13 October 2026. Converting to ZRS requires first upgrading to GPv2, a one-way change. - AGDLP
Nesting pattern: users go into global groups, which go into domain local groups, which receive the permissions. AGUDLP adds universal groups for forests with several domains.
Related terms
- Queue Storage
Service in Azure Storage offering basic message queues. Each message can be up to 64 KB, ordering is not guaranteed and AzCopy has no support for them.
- Trusted workspace access
Firewalled ADLS Gen2 or Blob Storage becomes reachable, via resource instance rules, from workspaces holding a workspace identity, whether through shortcuts, pipelines, COPY INTO, AzCopy or Import semantic models. Only paid F SKUs qualify; trials don't.