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June 19, 2020 Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, Azure Storage, Azure Storage services

Recover blob data from azure storage after delete

One of the tasks that an Azure administrator should take care of it when you are managing the data on your organization and saving it on Azure Storage you should know How to keep it up and running and also you should know How to recover it after delete

Today we will see what is the required configuration we should do it to be able to recover your deleted data from Azure storage Microsoft Azure has a feature called SOFT DELETE by using this feature you can configure the Azure storage to keep the data available for recovery within the specified data retention period after the delete operation before starting for explaining the soft delete I highly recommend you to take a look into this list of articles you will find very important information and useful content for How to manage Azure storage Check the Articles from ➡️ here

Azure Storage Soft delete options and information
How to Enable Soft Delete Configuration on Azure Storage account
How to check the deleted data and recover it
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June 17, 2020 Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, Azure Storage, Azure Storage services

How to Identify and to Delete unused Blobs in Azure Storage

Case Scenario

As Azure administrator, once of the tasks can be assigned to you is identifying all of the blobs that are not modified for the last 100 days and delete them and we need to automate this task to run automatically on Azure Storage

Introduction

Azure Storage services are one of the most important Azure services that many other services depend on it that’s why we should keep monitoring the size of it to reduce the cost, and of the things that we should take care about it, the blobs that are not used from a long time like our case scenario, that’s why Microsoft Azure provided us something called Azure Blob storage lifecycle

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June 6, 2020June 8, 2020 Mustafa EL-Masry Azure Data lake, Azure Storage, Azure Storage services

Provisioning a Gen 2 Azure Data Lake

Gen 2 Azure Data Lake It is Microsoft Service designed for big data processing, and it is a combination between azure storage feature and Azure Gen1 Data lake and Microsoft recommend to use GEN2 for X of reasons (Performance, Management, and Security) Azure Gen2 Data Lake is the addition of a hierarchical namespace , So Gen2 Azure Data Lake is designed for managing and storing a very big large amount of data petabytes. For more information about Gen2 Azure Data Lake Check Microsoft documentation

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June 3, 2020 Mustafa EL-Masry #Azure, Azure Storage

Azure Storage Account Monitoring Services

Azure Storage is one of the Azure services and most of the azure services depend on it that’s why we should know how we can monitor the capacity, performance, and so many other things but before listing the Azure Storage account monitoring tools I highly recommend you to take a look into this link that contains a lot of articles related to Azure storage and if you are interested to know more about Azure services such as Azure VM, Data Studio, SQL Database, PowerShell, CLI, Subscription Check this link contain a lot of articles in azure, and if you are preparing for Azure administrator certification check this article

Monitor activity on Azure storage
Azure monitoring classic
Azure Storage insights
Main Azure Monitor
Azure Storage account monitoring Resources

Monitor Activity on Azure Storage

To check the activity executed on Azure storage like data process and actions ingress and Egress you can check it using Activity log and Log Analytics Services from this place you will have full Visibility about what is the process, actions and command executed on Azure storage account For more information I already explained this point in this article (Azure Storage Account and Log Analytics)