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# Azure Queue Storage

> Keep Aikeedo's background jobs in Azure Queue Storage.

## Overview

Azure Queue Storage keeps queues in an Azure storage account at low cost. Each Aikeedo queue becomes a storage queue named with your prefix, such as `aikeedo-default`, created as needed. Messages are kept until they are worked; the adapter turns off Azure's default 7-day expiry.

## Configuration

**1. Create a storage account**

In the [Azure portal](https://portal.azure.com/#browse/Microsoft.Storage%2FStorageAccounts), create a storage account, or use an existing one.

**2. Copy the connection string**

Open the storage account and go to **Security + networking > Access keys**. Press **Show** next to a connection string and copy it.

A connection string with a SAS token works too. It needs the Queue service; the Service, Container and Object resource types; and the read, write, delete, list, add, create, update and process permissions.

**3. Test and enable**

Go to **Settings → System → Queue adapters → Azure Queue Storage**, paste the **Connection string**, turn on **Status** and press **Save changes**. Saving tests the connection first, and shows the service's error if it fails. Then choose Azure Queue Storage on the **Queue** page.

## Good to know

* **Counts only.** The Queue page shows how many jobs are waiting, as Azure reports it, approximately.
* **Message size.** Azure takes messages up to 64 KB. Aikeedo's jobs are far smaller; a larger one fails with a clear error.
* **Prefix.** An empty prefix falls back to `aikeedo-`, so workers never take messages from your other queues.

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