If you’re building on Azure, sooner or later you’ll work with an Azure Storage Account. It’s a foundational service behind many real-world systems, and Blob Storage is one of its most common use cases for handling unstructured data at scale. Replication Strategies, Lifecycle Management, and Shared Access Signature (SAS) tokens ate the three features, despite how powerful they are, often overlooked or underused. Even though getting them right can have a big impact on cost, security, and overall system design. 😕

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