Mike: Hi Gurus, welcome to this lesson
on File and Blob Data Protection.
Data protection is crucial,
especially when dealing with cloud storage solutions.
This lesson will cover four essential aspects
of data protection for Azure File and Blob Storage,
Blob Soft Delete,
Point-in-Time Restore,
Immutable Storage,
and Azure Files and Backup.
Let's start with Soft Delete.
Blob Soft Delete protects against accidental
or malicious deletion of Blobs
by retaining them for a configurable retention period.
This feature allows you to recover deleted Blobs
with that retention policy,
minimizing data loss.
Azure also provides the ability
to enable Soft Delete for containers,
allowing the restoration of all Blobs within a container
with a single restoration request.
Point-in-Time Restore, on the other hand,
enables you to restore Blobs to an earlier point in time,
which is particularly useful
for recovering from data corruption
or application errors.
Immutable Storage
is another important data protection feature in Azure.
It ensures that data cannot be modified
or deleted for a specified period,
helping you to comply
with regulatory requirements and legal holds.
Immutable Storage is particularly valuable
in industries such as financial services, healthcare,
and others with strict data retention
and compliance regulations.
And finally, Azure Files,
which provides fully managed file shares in the cloud
where we can access them with SMB protocols
or even file system APIs.
Azure Backup offers centralized backup management
for Azure Files.
It supports various backup scenarios,
like full, incremental, and even more.
And in the case of data loss or corruption,
Azure Backup provides recovery options
to restore individual files
or entire file shares.
In this scenario,
we have a financial institution that needs to store
and protect sensitive customer data in the cloud
while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.
For our solution,
we can use Azure Blob Storage
with Soft Delete and Point-in-Time Restore enabled.
We can configure Immutable Storage
for Blobs that contain sensitive data.
And we can implement Azure Backup and Recovery
for Azure Files to protect and restore file shares.
Thank you for joining me in this short lesson.
I hope this has been a helpful overview
of the retention policy services available
for Azure Blob and File Storage.