title: Azure storage underlying technology
body: <p>What is Azure storage made of, the underlying storage technology which supports the Azure storage we access in azure portal? </p>
  
  <p>Is it object based storage or block storage (persistent/ephemeral) similar to categorization in Ceph?</p>
  
  <p>If there is a mix of block and object based, which storage is used for each of exposed Azure storage service - block blob, append blob, page blob, storage tables, storage queues, Azure files</p>