SAS Signature and Azure Storage Explorer

In the second domain of AZ-104, which is AZ-104: Implement and manage storage in Azure. I want to talk about SAS Signature and Azure Storage Explorer. Why those two specific ideas? It is because I love how it works when I was reading it and thought that was cool.

SAS

SAS stands for Shared Access Signature. You use SAS to share resources in Azure. There are three ways to do it:

User Delegation SAS: Used only for Bob Storage and is associated with Azure AD credentials.

Service SAS: Use it when you are securing using a storage account key. These are only used in Blob, Queue Table, or Files.

Account SAS: this is secured with a storage account key. The difference between Account SAS and Service SAS is that it can control access to service-level operations such as Get Service Stats.

Azure Storage Explorer

Azure Storage Explorer is something I thoroughly enjoyed reading. Azure Storage Explorer is a GUI application to simplify access to and the management of data stored in Azure Accounts. It can handle all Azure Storage types. One of the beneficial things of Azure Storage Explorer is the ability to manage data stored in multiple Azure Storage accounts across Azure Subscriptions.

You can use local emulators for the beginning phase to use Azure Storage Explorer. This is if you don't want additional cost which is useful in the beginning. You can use Azure Storage Explorer to connect your Azure Resources. There are a lot of ways but two main one I like is:

• Adding resources by using Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)

  • This is from the source of learning Microsoft (Copy and paste):

    1. Open Storage Explorer.

    2. Select the Add an Azure Account option and sign in to Azure.

    3. Connect to your Azure storage account.

    4. Select Add a resource via Azure AD, and then choose the Azure tenant and the associated account.

    5. When you're prompted, provide the type of resource that you're connecting to.

    6. Review and verify the connection details, and then select Connect.

  • Use a shared access signature URI

    1. Open Storage Explorer.

    2. Connect to your Azure storage account.

    3. Select the connection type: shared access signature URI (SAS).

    4. Provide a meaningful name for the connection.

    5. Provide the SAS URI.

    6. Review and verify the connection details, and then select Connect.

Thank you for reading this, keep in mind I am a noob but love doing this. I will slowly improve as long I am learning.