Optimising Global Content Delivery: Ensuring Low Latency for Expanding Worldwide Demand

Create a storage account to support the public website.

In the portal, select storage accounts

Select "+ Create"

Create new resource group and select "OK"

Name storage account

Select "Review and Create"

Select "Create"

Select Go to Resourcce

This storage requires high availability if there’s a regional outage. Additionally, enable read access to the secondary region,

In the Data management section

Select Redundancy

Select Read-access geo-redundant storage

Review primary and secondary location

Information on the public website should be accessible without requiring customers to login.

In the settings section

Ensure Allow Blob anonymous access is Enabled

Save your changes

Create a blob storage container with anonymous read access
The public website has various images and documents. Create a blob storage container for the content

In your storage account, select Data storage and select Containers blade

Select "+ Container"

Name the container

Select "Create"

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Customers should be able to view the images without being authenticated. Configure anonymous read access for the public container blobs**

Select the public container

Select change access level

Ensure public access level is Blob

Select "OK"

Practice uploading files and testing access
For testing, upload a file to the public container. The type of file doesn’t matter

Select "Upload" from the Container

Upload file

Copy URL annd paste in a new browser tab

File should display

Configure soft delete
It’s important that the website documents can be restored if they’re deleted

Go to the overview blade of the storage account

On the properties page, loacte blob service section

Select the Blob soft delete setting

Ensure the Enable soft delete for blobs is checked.

Change the Keep deleted blobs for (in days setting is 21.

Don’t forget to Save your changes.

If something gets deleted, you need to practice using soft delete to restore the files.

Navigate to your container where you uploaded a file.
Select the file you uploaded and then select Delete.

Select OK to confirm deleting the file.

On the container Overview page, toggle the slider Show deleted blobs. This toggle is to the right of the search box.
Select your deleted file, and use the ellipses on the far right, to Undelete the file.

Refresh the container and confirm the file has been restored.

Configure blob versioning

*It’s important to keep track of the different website product document versions. *

Go to the Overview blade of the storage account.

In the Properties section, locate the Blob service section.
Select the Versioning setting.

Ensure the Enable versioning for blobs checkbox is checked.

Notice your options to keep all versions or delete versions after.
Don’t forget to Save your changes.

As you have time experiment with restoring previous blob versions.
Upload another version of your container file. This overwrites your existing file.
Your previous file version is listed on Show deleted blobs page.