Azure Storage offers many useful features and services that make integration into existing systems easier. New solutions can take advantage of these features on an architectural level. Knowing which common patterns are natively supported by Azure Storage can radically accelerate development. Here is an overview of them.
Blob Storage / Blob Service / Containers
Shared Access Tokens
A container can delegate certain permissions via a SAS (shared access signature) token to JavaScript code (for example). Every token is signed by a private key. There are three methods of generating the token, each of which provides permissions in a different way: