As you know you have 3 different access tiers available for storage account – hot, cool, archive – you have to define based on the access type (frequency) to the data stored in storage account. Well, a fourth new one is now available in preview: Cold. NOTE during the preview this new tier …
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Azure Storage account allows you to store data objects (blobs, files, queues, tables or disks) in the cloud. When you create a storage account you have to select a redundancy option – from locally redundant (LRS) to Geo-zone redundant (GZRS), and anything in between. If you selected a non-zonal (LRS or GRS) redundancy option, it …
If you use Azure Files, you are probably already aware you could configure Active Directory Kerberos authentication to manage files (and folders) permissions (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-active-directory-overview/). This involved deploying Azure Active Directory Services or having access to Active Directory domain controllers. Well, good news, it is now becoming easier thanks to the new Azure AD Kerberos …
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In February 2022, a new root and intermediate certificate authorities will be used for Azure Storage TLS certificate. The new authority will be DigiCert Global G2 Root. For most of Azure Storage deployment this change will have no impact and will be totally transparent. However if you have explicitly define a list of acceptable CA …
If you work with Azure Storage accounts, you may already know the Azure Storage Explorer utility you can install on your client (Windows or MacOS) as well as it equivalent from the Azure portal. Well, the Storage Explorer experience from the portal has changed and is now called Storage browser and provides a simplified storage …
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As you know, you can protect your Azure Storage account by using shared access signatures and/or restricting from which network the storage account can be access. The later use the service endpoint Microsoft.Storage you enable on your virtual network and/or subnet. Well, the use of service endpoint to restrict access to your storage account from …
This has been a long awaited capability, being able to setup a serverless FTP. Well, good news, you can now enabled SFTP (Secure FTP) access to your blob storage. First thing first, you need to register the SFTP support for Azure Blob Storage provider by accessing the Preview features blade from your subscription This feature …
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As you know, you can use access keys to access Azure Storage Account content (Blob, Table, File…). While this is helpful this also implies some security risk when using public endpoints. Well, good news, you can now disable account access keys on storage account to use Azure AD authentication instead. IMPORTANT if you disable account …
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As we know, mistakes happen even if there is safeguard in place (like locking deletion activities at the resource group or the resource level; this should be a best practice, especially on any production resource groups or resources). You can now recover deleted storage account. To be able to recover a deleted storage account, you …
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As you know you can use Azure Storage account to host file shares on Azure. Also you are aware that you can backup your Azure File share to an Azure Recovery Vault. While the file share backup has been available for configuration from the Azure Recovery Vault settings for a while, you can now configure …
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