Azure Storage Account External Access

[lucid zodiac]

What are different ways I can provide an external user access to upload data into a storage account? Ideally, this method would also provide me a way to use an UI in case the user does not have technical acumen. We prefer to not use SAS tokens

[grave gyro]

I beleive in that case you would use Azure blob storage api.

You can use Blob Storage REST API to allow external users to upload data to your storage account. You'd provide an endpoint and necessary credentials to external users. You'd have to create an application that provides a user interface though

[lucid zodiac]

Can you explain by "necessary credentials"? or perhaps point me to some documentation?

[grave gyro]

You can find instructions for creating a storage account here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-account-create?tabs=azure-portal

you'll need to create a container within the storage account. You can find instructions for creating a container here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-quickstart-blobs-portal#create-a-container

To upload data using the Azure Blob Storage REST API, you'll need to construct an HTTP request that includes the necessary headers and payload. You can find the documentation for the REST API here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/blob-service-rest-api

Once you've constructed the HTTP request, you can use a tool like cURL or Postman to send the request to the Azure Blob Storage REST API endpoint.

As far as a front end for non technical users, you'd have to create a web application or logic app

Unfortunately, I'm not too experienced on the Dev ops/web side so I know what resources to use, but not how to code them

[lucid zodiac]

Thank you so much this is extremely helpful
can i also set up b2b with the users tenant and grant them access @grave gyro

[grave gyro]

You could also do that with the proper IAM roles

[lucid zodiac]

I have owner access on my tenant