Azure Files and File Sync
How Azure Files really works and what interviewers probe: SMB and NFS shares in a storage account or as Microsoft.FileShares resources, provisioned v2 with storage, IOPS and throughput set separately, bursting and the 5x guardrail, identity-based SMB with AD DS, Entra Domain Services or Entra Kerberos (now cloud-only too), port 445 and private endpoints, File Sync with cloud tiering, and snapshots, soft delete and vaulted backup.
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