Azure File Storage Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• A Step by Step Guide on How to Migrate from AWS to Azure

  If your workloads require shared storage, Azure Files is a nice pick. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• Searching for online alternative for a synology

  Azure Files perhaps? Or if you need frequently accessed files to be quicker then Azure File Sync. Source: over 1 year ago

• How To Upload and Delete files in Azure Blob Storage Using Blazor Apps With .NET 7

  ​To know more details: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage/files/. - Source: dev.to / almost 2 years ago

• Hosted, mappable storage?

  If you have a use case that affords any kind of budget, maybe consder Azure Files. It is an SMB share you access over the internet. Basically, windows file server but hardened and entirely managed by Microsoft. This is as hands-off as it gets for an SMB share. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Microsoft cloud drive options

  I have a client that (finally!) decided to go all-in on Azure; I had prepared the owner to expect additional costs based on their need for a file share -- I was expecting to have to use Azure Files. Source: about 2 years ago

• Sharing a folder between organizations shows in the file browser?

  I agree with the SharePoint, though another option would be Azure Files. Source: over 2 years ago

• Possible to have a local fileserver with Microsoft 365 Authentication *without* local AD?

  Is there any solution that would allow a local file share with M365 Auth? I do not want to use Azure Files. Source: about 3 years ago

• Sharepoint/OneDrive Read-Only Access Issue

  If you want a direct replacement for your fileserver in the cloud, it's Azure Files. If you want to make the most out of SharePoint, check the adoption guides that Microsoft offers through FastTrack. Source: over 3 years ago

• Top 30 Microsoft Azure Services

  If you're deploying applications to the cloud, you'll need persistent data storage. Azure Blob Storage allows scalable storage for objects and files and provides an SDK to easily access them. Blob storage is a great trigger for Azure Functions, where uploading a file can automatically run your custom logic in the cloud (for example, if you wanted to run OCR on a file as soon as it's uploaded to a storage... - Source: dev.to / over 3 years ago

• Sharepoint Online as alternative to shared folders on network share.

  If you need/want file shares use those instead. Sharepoint is a decent document collaboration system, but does not work really well as a mapped drive alternative. Microsoft has seemed to recognize this, and released Azure Files as an alternative just for this purpose. If you want something on-premise a Synology box can provide a lot of storage for cheap. Source: over 3 years ago

• SharePoint File Limitation

  You may want to look at Azure Files, https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/files/, for a more traditional file share. Source: over 3 years ago

• Using SharePoint to sync all the files on a file server.

  You can sync SharePoint to the users file explorer with instructions here. If you are looking for something more like a file server in the cloud you may want to look towards Azure Files. We typically set up and sync Sharepoint for shared files and set up Known Folder Migration for user's personal files with our customers. Source: almost 4 years ago

• Server recommendations

  Look at Azure Files if you need something closer to a traditional file server. SharePoint does not work well with application that need a UNC share to do things. Source: almost 4 years ago

• SharePoint vs. DropBox

  While SharePoint is great - based on everything you've said - it sounds like u literally want to store files, as is in the cloud. If so.. Then Azure files can do that, it's made for enterprises. SharePoint is a content management system, not a file share. Source: almost 4 years ago