In reply to Venkat.

Hi Venkat,
From the author (Conor Hogan):
This is absolutely possible and we have serval customers who are using cloud based file systems with their on-premise SAS Grid environment.

Providing guidelines that describe how to layout your file system is one of the more difficult areas to address because there are so many dependencies to consider. How is SAS being used? Are you running on a single machine or multiple? How much data throughput is required? How I/O intensive are your workloads?

In general this is an operating system level configuration. Once you have the mount points setup you should be able to use the file system just like any other. I would be very considerate of your system requirements and be prepared to monitor how performant a cloud file system will be for your use case. Because you are essentially outsourcing your file system, remember you will be relying heavily on the network and shared infrastructure, so you could have issues with latency.

Azure files or Azure NetApp files are going to be your options. Take a look at these Azure Files mount instructions. I'm not sure what operating system that you are using but I hope it's safe to assume SAS 9.4 Grid is running on Linux. Here's a resource for using Azure files with Linux.

I will have a blog that discusses Azure Storage soon.