To learn how to create an azure storage account see create a storage account.
Azure standard storage account limits.
General purpose v2 storage account.
To request an increase in account limits contact azure support.
Data in your azure storage account is durable and highly available secure and massively scalable.
Storage accounts have performance benchmarks that limit the available throughput of requests to the storage account api.
The following table describes the maximum block and blob sizes permitted by service version.
A premium storage account has a maximum total throughput rate of 50 gbps.
To request an increase in account limits contact azure support.
The maximum number of highly utilized disks for a standard tier vm is about 40 which is 20 000 500 iops per disk.
To request an increase in account limits contact azure support.
For premium block blob or for data lake storage gen2 storage accounts use a block or blob size that is greater than 256 kib.
Azure now offers three types of storage accounts.
1 azure storage standard accounts support higher capacity limits and higher limits for ingress by request.
2 page blobs are not yet supported in accounts that have the hierarchical namespace setting on them.
The defaults remain the same as before.
General purpose v2 general purpose v1 and blob storage.
Each type supports different features and has its own pricing model.
The limit on cores is just one example.
2 if your storage account has read access enabled with geo redundant storage ra grs or geo zone redundant storage ra gzrs then the egress targets for the secondary location are identical to those of the primary location.
The total throughput across all of your vm disks should not exceed this limit.
Types of storage accounts.
A different application that depends heavily on storage might require the details of azure storage capacity and throughput per storage account.
Azure storage offers several types of storage accounts.
Blue matador automatically monitors the total ingress and egress metrics from azure monitor and will create an event when you approach these limits on a storage account.
See windows vm sizes for additional details.
For premium storage accounts.
1 azure storage standard accounts support higher capacity limits and higher limits for ingress by request.
2 if your storage account has read access enabled with geo redundant storage ra grs or geo zone redundant storage ra gzrs then the egress targets for the secondary.
Storage accounts determine eligibility for certain storage services and features and each is priced differently.
Effective immediately via a request made to azure support standard azure blob storage accounts or standard general purpose v2 storage accounts can support the following larger limits.
