Azure Table Storage
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Azure Table Storage, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Azure Table Storage's own pricing page, checked 5 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Azure Table Storage pay-as-you-go | — | Storage capacity and transaction rates vary by region, redundancy, and operation type · Any operation, including reads, writes, and deletes, counts as a transaction · Consumption-based; storage is priced per GB/month and operations per 10,000 transactions, with rates depending on region and redundancy. |
The facts
Each one read from Azure Table Storage's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Entity limits
- An Azure Storage entity can be up to 1 MB and can contain up to 252 user properties, in addition to three system properties.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Flexible schema
- Entities in the same table can have different sets of properties, so data can change as application needs evolve.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL key-value store for structured and semi-structured data with a schemaless design.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Querying
- Table Storage supports OData access and the documentation describes querying data using a clustered index.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Replication
- Microsoft says geo-redundant storage replicates data three times within a region and three additional times in another region.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Scale and use cases
- Microsoft describes Table Storage as suitable for large structured datasets, web scale applications, user data, address books, device information, and metadata.checked 5 Oct 2026
- SDKs and API
- Azure Storage client libraries are listed for .NET, Java, Android, C++, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and Python, and data is accessible through a REST API.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Security and encryption
- The pricing page describes service-scoped keys with Microsoft-managed encryption at rest and account-scoped keys that enable customer-managed encryption keys.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Storage account requirement
- Azure Table Storage is supported by Standard general-purpose v2 storage accounts, which also support Blob Storage, Queue Storage, and Azure Files.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Strong consistency
- Microsoft says that after data is inserted or updated, subsequent accesses see the latest update.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Support
- All Azure customers have billing and subscription management support, while technical support is available to customers with a support plan.checked 5 Oct 2026
Money
- Free account offer
- Azure offers new customers a $200 credit to use on Azure services within 30 days; the product page does not state that Table Storage itself has a free allowance.checked 5 Oct 2026
- Free plan
- Nochecked 22 Sep 2026
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