File shares on FileStorage accounts backed by SSDs, giving latency in single-digit milliseconds for transaction-heavy work. Only LRS and ZRS are offered, so geo-redundancy is unavailable.
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Terms in this definition
- FileStorage
Storage account kind on premium SSD dedicated to Azure Files, supporting only ZRS or LRS redundancy.
- 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.
- LRS
Locally redundant storage, the lowest-cost redundancy option, keeps three copies of the data inside a single datacentre in the primary region.
- ZRS
Zone-redundant storage: data is written three times, each copy in a different availability zone of the same region, and nothing is replicated to a secondary region.
Related terms
- IO
Input/output refers to reads and writes against storage; Premium Azure Files delivers IO latency in single-digit milliseconds. Compare IOPS.