what is the difference between disk and storage in Azure? Or Disk is a type of a subset of storage account

Question

what is the difference between disk and storage in Azure? Or Disk is a type of a subset of storage account?

Answer 1

Hi @Govind Kumar ,

the managed Azure Disks (block-level storage volumes) are stored in Azure Storage (managed by Azure).

This graphic shows how it works:

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/managed-disks-overview#disk-allocation-and-performance

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Andreas Baumgarten