azure files --- azure file storage

azure files --- azure file storage

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/storage-dotnet-how-to-use-files/

as documented by MS

Azure File storage offers file shares in the cloud using the standard SMB protocol

• Storage Account: All access to Azure Storage is done through a storage account. See Azure Storage Scalability and Performance Targets for details about storage account capacity.
• Share: A File storage share is an SMB file share in Azure. All directories and files must be created in a parent share. An account can contain an unlimited number of shares, and a share can store an unlimited number of files, up to the 5 TB total capacity of the file share.
• Directory: An optional hierarchy of directories.
• File: A file in the share. A file may be up to 1 TB in size.
• URL format: Files are addressable using the following URL format:
  https://.file.core.windows.net///
  The following example URL could be used to address one of the files in the diagram above:
  http://samples.file.core.windows.net/logs/CustomLogs/Log1.txt