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articles/storage/queues/storage-queues-introduction.md

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ms.subservice: queues
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# What are Azure Queues?
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Azure Queue storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS. A single queue message can be up to 64 KB in size, and a queue can contain millions of messages, up to the total capacity limit of a storage account.
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Azure Queue storage is a service for storing large numbers of messages. You access messages from anywhere in the world via authenticated calls using HTTP or HTTPS. A queue message can be up to 64 KB in size. A queue may contain millions of messages, up to the total capacity limit of a storage account.
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## Common uses
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![Queue Concepts](./media/storage-queues-introduction/queue1.png)
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* **URL format:** Queues are addressable using the following URL format:
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https://`<storage account>`.queue.core.windows.net/`<queue>`
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* **URL format:** Queues are addressable using the following URL format:
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`https://<storage account>.queue.core.windows.net/<queue>`
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The following URL addresses a queue in the diagram:
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`https://myaccount.queue.core.windows.net/images-to-download`
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* **Storage account:** All access to Azure Storage is done through a storage account. See [Azure Storage Scalability and Performance Targets](../common/storage-scalability-targets.md?toc=%2fazure%2fstorage%2fqueues%2ftoc.json) for details about storage account capacity.
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* **Queue:** A queue contains a set of messages. All messages must be in a queue. Note that the queue name must be all lowercase. For information on naming queues, see [Naming Queues and Metadata](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/dd179349.aspx).
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* **Queue:** A queue contains a set of messages. All messages must be in a queue. The queue name **must** be all lowercase. For information on naming queues, see [Naming Queues and Metadata](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/azure/dd179349.aspx).
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* **Message:** A message, in any format, of up to 64 KB. Prior to version 2017-07-29, the maximum time-to-live allowed is 7 days. For version 2017-07-29 or later, the maximum time-to-live can be any positive number, as well as -1 indicating that the message does not expire. If this parameter is omitted, the default time-to-live is 7 days.
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* **Message:** A message, in any format, of up to 64 KB. Before version 2017-07-29, the maximum time-to-live allowed is seven days. For version 2017-07-29 or later, the maximum time-to-live can be any positive number, or -1 indicating that the message doesn't expire. If this parameter is omitted, the default time-to-live is seven days.
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## Next steps
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