Comparison of Azure Storage authorization models: Shared Key, service and account SAS, user delegation SAS, and Microsoft Entra ID with RBAC. A flow diagram shows Azure Functions accessing Storage using a managed identity and the Storage Blob Data Reader role.

Securing and managing access for Azure Storage

Azure Storage offers highly available, massively scalable, and durable storage for a variety of different data objects in the cloud. You can access this data from anywhere in the world over HTTPS via REST, or through client libraries using .NET, Python, Java, Node.js, and Go. Azure Storage platform includes Blob data, which acts as a object store for text and binary data, Azure Files for file shares for cloud or on-prem deployments, Elastic Storage Area Network (SAN) data, Azure Queues, Azure Tables, managed disks, and more! ...

November 7, 2026 · 7 min · Will Velida