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Purpose
Azure Table Storage is a NoSQL key-value store for structured and semi-structured data with a schemaless design.Read 5 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Free plan
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Support
All Azure customers have billing and subscription management support, while technical support is available to customers with a support plan.Read 5 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Flexible schema
Entities in the same table can have different sets of properties, so data can change as application needs evolve.Read 5 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
Querying
Table Storage supports OData access and the documentation describes querying data using a clustered index.Read 5 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Replication
Microsoft says geo-redundant storage replicates data three times within a region and three additional times in another region.Read 5 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com
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.Read 5 Oct 2026 · learn.microsoft.com
Strong consistency
Microsoft says that after data is inserted or updated, subsequent accesses see the latest update.Read 5 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

Plans and prices

Azure Table Storage pay-as-you-go Price not published Consumption-based; storage is priced per GB/month and operations per 10,000 transactions, with rates depending on region and redundancy. Storage capacity and transaction rates vary by region, redundancy, and operation type · Any operation, including reads, writes, and deletes, counts as a transaction Read 5 Oct 2026 · azure.microsoft.com

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