If you are running a web application in Azure then you must have used Storage Account service. This is a commonly used service to store binary files for example - images, files and videos. This is quite common usecase for any web application is to upload files. It is really easy to upload small files,... Continue Reading →
Azure Key Vault can be accessed using Managed Identities. Here we will talk about Managed Identities and create a User-Managed Identity to access Azure Key Vault from the MVC web application. Managed Identities Overview Managed Identity provides Azure services with an automatically managed identity in AAD (Azure Active Directory). It helps to authenticate to any service that... Continue Reading →
Lifecycle management is a transition and retention activity. This helps to take necessary action based on the aging of blobs within storage account. Azure Storage Lifecycle management comes with set of policies. A policy is collection of rules and each rule definition has a filter set and an action set. Filters are used to mark... Continue Reading →
Azure blob storage can be accessed using Managed Identity. This post will briefly talk about Managed Identity and enable Managed Identity to access Azure Blob from the WebApp. What is Managed Identity Managed Identity provides Azure services with an automatically managed identity in AAD (Azure Active Directory). It helps to authenticate to any service that supports AAD... Continue Reading →
The blob storage accessibility can be control using Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). Team members have read permission then they can view data inside blob storage which is quite useful for non-prod environment scenarios. But, if this is not a good use case for production environment. Production environment data security can be improved using Azure Data... Continue Reading →
Security should be a very first concern for any organization, and when it comes to the cloud, it becomes foremost to get protected with the best industry's practices. Here, we would see an Azure Defender definition, how to enable it for blob storage, and an Azure subscription. What is Azure Defender Azure Defender adds a... Continue Reading →
Data is everything in the current world, and no one wants to lose it. However, we need to follow the right strategies and best practices to know what is happening with data and how to recover if something wrong happens to data. Azure Storage Service provides many data protection options that are available under Recovery... Continue Reading →
Blob versioning helps to maintain the last modified version of an object (Files, Images or Videos, etc), if the same object is updated by any operation. If blob versioning is enabled, then any available previous copy can be restored. We should use blob versioning to maintain previous versions to enable another layer of data protection.... Continue Reading →
Do you know that we can connect Azure services using Excel? I came across a scenario where I was supposed to utilize Azure Blob and Azure SQL service, and bring the data to Excel and do some analysis and create charts. In this post, we are going to connect Azure Blob Storage and Azure SQL... Continue Reading →
Azure Blob Storage got a new feature named Object Replication. Currently, this feature is only supported for the block blob. Object replication asynchronously copies blobs between a source storage account and a destination account. Object replication helps to minimize latency and data distribution, and the implementation requires replication policies and rules to be set on... Continue Reading →