Standard general-purpose v2

In the Ultra Transcenders books

AZ-305AZ-104AZ-700SC-500AZ-900DP-900

Each book explains Standard general-purpose v2 in context, with comparison tables and the common traps.

Terms in this definition

• Standard deployment type

  A Foundry deployment type billed per token that keeps processing of prompts and responses inside the Azure geography of the resource, meeting data residency needs at lower volumes.

• Storage account

  The top-level resource in Azure Storage, giving a unique namespace for table, queue, file and blob data. Location, performance and kind are set when it is created and cannot change.

• 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.

• ALL

  A DAX function that ignores any filters and gives back every row of a table or every value of the named columns. Used within CALCULATE, it works as a modifier that clears filters, although REMOVEFILTERS states that intent more clearly where it is available.

• Redundancy

  So that hardware failures, datacentre outages or a regional disaster cannot destroy data, Azure Storage keeps multiple copies: only in the primary region with LRS and ZRS, or in a secondary region as well with GRS and GZRS.

• Table options

  Set only at creation with OPTIONS, these key-value storage settings can't be altered or dropped afterwards; on Delta tables they also show up among the table properties.

Related terms

• ADLS Gen2

  Short for Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2: a standard GPv2 account with hierarchical namespace turned on, so analytics workloads get true directories and POSIX-style ACLs.

• Hierarchical namespace

  Enabling this option on a GPv2 storage account makes it ADLS Gen2, bringing directories and ACLs.

• Lifecycle management

  Blob Storage policy whose rules delete blobs, or shift them to another access tier, once they reach an age counted from creation, modification, last access or last tier change. GPv2 and legacy BlobStorage accounts support it, as do premium block blob accounts for deletion only.

• Object replication

  Keeps a destination container in another storage account, in any region, asynchronously in step with a source container's block blobs. It works with GPv2 and premium block blob accounts, requiring versioning on both sides and change feed at the source.

• Performance tier

  Choice made when a storage account is created and not changeable afterwards: Standard (HDD-based GPv2) or Premium (SSD) for latency and throughput. To cut costs for cold data, change the access tier instead.

• Premium page blob

  Storage account flavour (kind StorageV2, SKU Premium_LRS) that holds page blobs exclusively. It supports LRS only, has no access tiers and cannot be converted to ZRS.

• Smart tier

  Lets Azure decide whether each block blob sits in hot, cool or cold according to usage, with no charges for retrieval, early deletion or tier moves. Archive isn't involved, and the account must be standard general-purpose v2 with zone redundancy.