Understanding Azure Storage
Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution and is highly available, secure, and scalable, plus, it supports a variety of programming languages. It is usually the first data solution users encounter when they start using Azure and it contains several services, including Disk, Blob, Table, File, and Queue.
All communication inside Azure data centers is over HTTPS, but what happens when we access data from outside? As per the shared responsibility model (explained in Chapter 1, An Introduction to Azure Security), this falls under the user's responsibility. For newly deployed storage accounts, traffic over HTTPS is enabled by default. If required, it can be disabled, but obviously, it's not recommended. Keep in mind that HTTPS is the default option only for storage accounts created after August 2021 and previously created accounts should be revisited.
Under Configuration, there is an option called Secure transfer required. To ensure...