Want to transfer data to Azure Storage Accounts and unsure what method to use?
Lets have a look at Azure Data Transfer suggestions to assist you in choosing the solution recommended for you
A pretty cool feature within Storage Accounts, a few quick drop-downs to select and Azure offer you the most viable options to assist in transferring your data to Azure Storage Accounts (search responses consist of the most common Azure transfer solutions)
How do I access?
Within a Storage Account on Azure Portal, select Data Transfer
You will now see three drop-downs that you need to input before Azure can provide viable solutions, requirements for this are mentioned below
Requirements
- Estimated data size for transfer:- A guesstimate of data that you want to transfer to an Azure Storage Account
- Approximate available network bandwidth:- Approximate available bandwidth that will be used for data transfer
- Transfer Frequency:- Will you be requiring this sort of data transfer once or frequently?
From the requirements, Azure then offer you the most viable and common Azure Transfer Solutions, example below:-
From the options, you can view a quick summary along with the “Learn more” option and when selecting this you will be redirected to the relevant page on docs.microsoft.com for further information and how to implement.
A graph to illustrate how the calculation and recommendations are worked out
Thomas Thornton - Microsoft Azure MVP - HashiCorp Ambassador 