When we talked about VMs and created one, I kind of glanced over the disks that VMs use. These are managed disks, which is a special kind of storage within Azure. I briefly mentioned earlier in the chapter that one of the common use cases is to attach a file storage account to a VM. Managed disks are like actual physical hard drives that you have in your computer. You attach one or more to a VM and use them like you would a hard drive. Although they are storage just like all the other types we’ve gone through in this chapter, they aren’t quite the same. Remember the URLs for blob, file share, queue, and Table Storage? They looked something like this: https://banningstorage..core.windows.net. That URL exists because all the data can be accessed over HTTP/HTTPS using the internet,
