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Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition

You're reading from   Microsoft Azure Development Cookbook Second Edition Over 70 advanced recipes for developing scalable services with the Microsoft Azure platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2014
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ISBN-13 9781782170327
Length 422 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Developing Cloud Services for Microsoft Azure FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying Quickly with Azure Websites 3. Getting Storage with Blobs in Azure 4. Going Relational with the Azure SQL Database 5. Going NoSQL with Azure Tables 6. Messaging and Queues with the Storage and Service Bus 7. Managing Azure Resources with the Azure Management Libraries 8. Going In-memory with Azure Cache Index

Managing the Azure Storage service


The data stored by the Azure Storage service must be secured against unauthorized access. To ensure this security, all storage operations against the Table and Queue services must be authenticated. Similarly, other than inquiry requests against public containers and blobs, all operations against the Blob service must also be authenticated. The Blob service supports public containers so that, for example, blobs that contain images can be downloaded directly into a web page anonymously, without any authentication.

Each storage account has a primary access key and secondary access key that can be used to authenticate operations against the storage service. When creating a request against the storage service, one of the keys is used along with various request headers to generate a 256-bit hash-based message authentication code (HMAC). This HMAC is added as an authorization request header to the request. On receiving the request, the Storage service recalculates...

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