Determine the best storage account type

Select an account type based on supported services, usage cases, and SLA.

Account Type	Supported Services	Usage
Standard general-purpose v2 (default)	Blobs / Data Lake, Queues, Tables, Azure Files	Recommended for most scenarios.
Premium block blobs	Blob storage, Data Lake	High transactions rates, single digit storage latency, or large numbers of small transactions
Premium file shares	Azure Files	Enterprise or high-performance scale applications - supports both SMBand NFS file shares
Premium page blobs	Page blobs only	High performance and low latency storage scenarios

Considerations for storage accounts

It is important to plan your storage accounts.

Location: For performance reasons locate the data close to users. One storage account for each location.
Compliance: Regulatory guidelines for keeping data in a specific location. / Internal requirements for auditing or storing data.
Cost: The settings for the account do influence the cost of services in the account.
Replication: Data storage could have different replication strategies.
Administrative overhead: Each storage account requires some time and attention from an administrator to create and maintain.
Security - Data sensitivity: Data plane security and data storage security.