Create a storage account and configure high availability.
In Azure Portal, search for “storage account”
Select “Storage account”
Select “Create”
*Insert Resource Group previously created name
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*Insert Storage account name
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Select “Redundancy” to be Geo-redundant storage (GRS)
Select “Review + Create”
Check Validation and select “Create”
Create a storage container, upload a file, and restrict access to the file.
In the storage account, select “Data storage” and select “containers”
Select “+ Container”
Name the container
Ensure access level is private
Select “Create”
Upload File to Container
Select Container
Select “Upload”
Select File and upload
Select the file and copy file URL to check if file will be accessed
Paste URL to a new tab, verify file doesn’t display
An external partner requires read and write access to the file for at least the next 24 hours. Configure and test a shared access signature (SAS)
Select the uploaded blob file and click the “Generate SAS tab”
Ensure the partner has only read permission
Set start/expiry time for the next 24 hours
Select “Generate SAS token and URL”
Copy the Blob SAS URL to a new browser tab to verify accessibility, file should be accessible.
Configure storage access tiers and content replication.
Return to storage account
Notice the default access tier is set to hot
In the Data Management section
Select “Lifecycle management”
Select “Add a rule”
Add Rule name
Select Rule scope to apply rule to all blobs in your storage account
Select “Next”
Select “Last modified”
Set days
Select “Move to cool storage”
Add rule
The public website files need to be backed up to another storage account
Create a new container
Select “Create”
Navigate to another storage account, click on “Data management”
Select “Object replication”
Select “Create replication rules”
Set Destination storage account to the Private storage previously created
Set Source Container as mainpublic and Destination Container as backup
Select “Create”
