azure storage account is iaas or paas?

Shivam Gupta 456 Reputation points
2021-01-06T15:54:18.44+00:00

Hi team,

is azure storage account is iaas or paas? i know storage is iaas but since i am not managing the storage server, availability/dependencies behind the azure storage account i think it is paas?

please confirm

Azure Storage Accounts
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Globally unique resources that provide access to data management services and serve as the parent namespace for the services.
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  1. Shivam Gupta 456 Reputation points
    2021-01-07T10:51:36.707+00:00
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  2. John O'Halloran 116 Reputation points
    2022-03-21T21:51:39.13+00:00

    An Azure Storage Account is not IaaS or PaaS because it is not a "service". An Azure Storage Account is a container for one of the Azure storage solutions; Azure Disk Storage(IaaS), Azure Blob Storage(PaaS), and Azure File Storage(SaaS).

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  3. Vamsi Krishna Vemula 76 Reputation points
    2021-03-21T05:52:16.533+00:00

    Azure Storage accounts fall under IaaS

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  4. SUNOJ KUMAR YELURU 14,466 Reputation points MVP
    2021-01-06T16:21:30.937+00:00

    @Shivam Gupta

    In my mind Azure Storage is a PaaS solution (since you do not have to manage os updates, load balancing, performance allocation etc). You are provided with a rest api, and you act against that rest api. IaaS storage would be a storage inside virtual machine(s). Since you have to manage the VMs in order for that storage to work.

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  5. Sumarigo-MSFT 47,021 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2021-01-06T16:36:08.187+00:00

    @Shivam Gupta Azure Storage consists of multiple services, some can be classified as PaaS, and some as IaaS
    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/overview/what-is-iaas/

    Hope this helps!

    Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.

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