Best Practices for Using Azure Blob Storage
The best practice for using Azure blob storage includes best security measure we must take to ensure smooth functioning of it:
- It is important to choose the best tier for your storage, keeping into consideration about the access pattern and your budget.
- We will always wish to protect our data from any disaster(can be man-made or natural). It is necessary to use Zone redundancy or Geo redundancy or Local redundancy for durability of data.
- It is a best practice to enable versioning to keep different versions of the files in order to rollback in case of requirement or protect against accidental overwrites.
- It is important to enable immutability option to protect data from any kind intended or accidental modification/deletion of data.
- If the data is used for back-up or have any critical data make sure you do not enable public access.
- It is important to give specific access by policy based or role based permission.
- Make sure in encryption, you encrypt your data with customer managed keys or Microsoft managed keys.
- Give proper lifecycle policy to make sure your data is moved from one tier to another in specific period of time, and are deleted after specified period of time only.
Azure Blob Storage
In today’s world where everything revolves around data, managing and storing vast amounts of data is the priority of every business operation. Azure Blob Storage, is one of the services offered by Microsoft Azure’s cloud computing platform, which is a scalable and cost-effective solution for storing and managing unstructured data, such as images, videos, documents, files, and backups.