In previous post we talked about a great feature of Azure Storage Account when it comes to cost management.

In this post I would like to propose an enhancement to blob inventory and share my experience with this feature.

Lately, a client assigned me to collaborate with a 3rd party vendor to review all their data assets. Initially, the task appeared straightforward, but it became complex when handling over 500 storage accounts and massive data volumes, such as hundreds of petabytes!

Here is how you can create a blob inventory rule:

This interface, does not accept a custom path for inventory report, for instance if you are working with a container and like to get the report for that particular container, the report gets generated to the directory within your container with year/month/day/Rule-Name structure. This is great until you work with a 3rd party vendor where you don’t want to give them full access to all 500 storage accounts in production.

In scenarios like this it would be great to have some flexibility to export the report to a separate storage account and container.

I would like to propose this to the azure storage account team and if you see this feature please vote for this feature to see this sooner than later.