Category: Azure Storage

Reviewing Azure Storage security strategies ensures your implementation aligns with best practices to safeguard your data and services. Here's a structured review of essential strategies. Authentication and Authorization Strengths Azure AD Integration: Secure and centralized identity management. RBAC: Granular control of access to resources. Areas… [ Read More ]

Using Stored Access Policies with Shared Access Signatures (SAS) in Azure Storage allows you to create a policy that controls the permissions, start time, expiry time, and other properties for a set of SAS tokens. This is useful because it centralizes the management of SAS… [ Read More ]

Shared Access Signatures (SAS) in Azure Storage provide secure, delegated access to resources within your Azure Storage account. With SAS, you can specify permissions, time duration, and the exact resources a user or application can access, without sharing your account keys. Here’s a detailed guide… [ Read More ]

Azure Storage provides encryption options to ensure data security both at rest and in transit. Here's how to determine and configure encryption for Azure Storage. Encryption at Rest Azure Storage automatically encrypts all data stored using Server-Side Encryption (SSE). There are three key management options.… [ Read More ]

Azure provides several types of storage accounts, each designed to meet specific needs based on performance, redundancy, and workload requirements. Understanding the different storage account types is essential for optimizing cost and performance. General-Purpose v2 (GPv2) GPv2 accounts are the most versatile and commonly used… [ Read More ]

Azure Storage offers several authorization options to control access to your storage resources. These options are designed to provide flexible and secure ways to authenticate users and applications, depending on your needs and the specific Azure services you are using. Here are the main authorization… [ Read More ]

Here’s a step-by-step guide to create a Storage Account using the Azure Portal: Step 1: Log in to the Azure Portal Go to the Azure Portal. Sign in with your Azure account credentials. Step 2: Navigate to Storage Accounts In the Search bar at the… [ Read More ]

Azure Storage is a cloud-based storage service that is scalable, secure, and highly available. It provides a wide range of storage solutions to cater to different use cases such as unstructured data, NoSQL databases, file sharing, and messaging. Here's a detailed exploration of Azure Storage… [ Read More ]

Azure offers Azure Files for file shares and Azure Blob Storage for object data storage. While both are part of Azure Storage, they are designed for different use cases. Here’s a detailed comparison. Core Purpose Feature Azure Files Azure Blob Storage Purpose Shared, file-based storage… [ Read More ]

Secure storage endpoints in Azure are critical for safeguarding data stored in Azure Storage accounts. They ensure secure and private access to storage resources by leveraging encryption, firewalls, virtual network integration, and other security features. Below is a detailed explanation of secure storage endpoints. Secure… [ Read More ]