Introduction In my previous article, I walked through how to host a public website using Azure Blob Storage. While public access is useful for static websites and publicly available content, not every file stored in the cloud should be accessible to everyone. In many real-world environments, organizations need a secure way to store internal documents, sensitive files, backups, and private company data while still maintaining scalability and availability in the cloud. In this article, we will build on the same Azure environment from the previous lab by reusing the existing Resource Group and Storage Account setup. If you did not follow the previous article, you can access it here: For this lab, we will configure private Azure Blob Storage, restrict anonymous access, generate secure Shared Access Signature (SAS) access, and implement lifecycle management and replication policies for better storage optimization and resiliency.…