Recently, Microsoft announced that they’re enabling the NFS protocol on top of blob storage. This is growing the strategy that started with ADLS gen 2, which put the HDFS protocol on top of blob storage. I am working on a number of projects where this support would be helpful for customers. It’s still early days […]
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Adding alerts to Azure Storage metrics
For every system you use, monitoring and alerting is critical. This holds true for Azure storage as well. In this quick post I’ll explain how you can setup alert rules for hitting TPS limits. Setting up the alert To set up the alerts, navigate to your storage account, look for Alerts, and hit the “New […]
Giving Azure Data Share a spin
Before the holidays, I blogged about sharing blob storage data with AAD B2B guests. Peter Demeyere mentioned to me on LinkedIn that he likes to use Azure Data share to share blob data, as it has some more tracking data built in. And funnily enough, during my long run this weekend, I listened to an […]
Sharing Blob storage with Azure AD B2B guests
Azure blob storage supports two ways of authorization for blob access. Either you use the storage account key or a derivate SAS token – or you use AAD RBAC to access blob. I did a quick test today to check if it would be possible to use a B2B guest to access blob storage. Want […]