Azure storage account contd..
Azure BackBone/Global Network
- Refer Here
- Microsoft has a backbone network which connects every region, edge location with a network cable carrying only azure related data.
Connecting to Azure Storage Account privately
- Overview: Azure storage account will not be part of virtual networks, to access data in the storage account the basic option is internet. If the vm in azure wants to access data in storage account, we can take the help of global network via private endpoints and private links
Lets establish private connectivity
- Create a virtual machine
- Now create a storage account with the following selections in network tab
- Now in this storage account create a container and upload some data
- Access the public container object by using curl from vm
- Access the private container object by using curl from vm
Accessing Private Data
- We can generate shared access signatures
- Refer Here for the url
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SAS Tokens provide temporary access to blobs and to generate sas tokens we need access keys
- We can access storage accounts from code to perform operations using connection strings
