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
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
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
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)
Azure Cosmos Database one of the Non-Relational NoSQL Database provided by Microsoft and we have another NoSQL Options in Azure like (Data Lake Storage Gen2, Blob Storage, Redis Cache, HBase in HDInsight), also Azure Cosmos Database Supported multiple API like (Core SQL, Mango DB, Cassandra, Graph, Azure Table) IF you need to learn more about this Point Check this Link Choose the appropriate API for Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Cosmos Database supported Write option in multiple regains in the same Database and the synchronizations tacking care about syncing the data. For more information about Azure Cosmos database, I highly recommend you to look into Microsoft Documentation
How to Provision Azure Cosmos DB Account
How to Provision Azure Cosmos DB Container
Load and Explorer the data into Azure Cosmos DB Container
Replication in Azure Cosmos DB
Data Consistency in Azure Cosmos DB
Cosmos DB and open Source
Azure Cosmos Database Resources
Cosmos DB NoSQL
How to Provision Azure Cosmos DB Account
To Create Azure Cosmos Database we need to create First Database account and this like Database instance we can host on it multiple databases, then after this step, we need to create Container ID and this the Database name in this you can find below what is the information required when we need to create Azure Cosmos Database account and for how to do it check below 👇✅ GIF File ✅to know how you can do it and For more information Check this Article
Account Name: it is like the instance name in SQL Server
Notebooks: Jupyter notebook is an open-source web application that allows you to create and share documents it is like the Azure Data Studio Notebook For more information read this Article
Location: The location you need to host on it your Azure Cosmos DB account
Account Type: It is something like a definition or categorized, we can consider it like Azure Resource Tag.
Geo-Redundancy: Enabling this Option automatically replicates your data to the region geo-paired with your current region you selected it. For more information about the Region geo-paired check this link Azure Regional PairsIF you don’t enable it during the setup you can enable it after the configuration from the main overview of the Azure Cosmos Account
Enable Geo-Redundancy
Multi-region Write: Enable the write option on the Regions you selected it on the geo-redundancy this means If you need to enable the Multi Regions Write option you Should Enable the Geo-Redundancy option with it this option you can enable it after the installation from Replicate Data Globally option If you need to learn more about this option check this Link
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