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Azure Storage Account | Deletion and Reuse

Problem Space

When it comes to creating Azure Storage Accounts, the name has some very important rules that need to be kept in mind. These rules will not only be important in the creation of the resource, but will be critical in deletion and reuse.

The rules are as follows:

  1. Storage account names …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Thursday, January 5, 2023

Azure API Management | Product Required Subscription Behaviours

Background | Functional Workings of APIM Subscriptions

Subscriptions are a nice and easy method of securing your APIs in APIM, however as I bumped into a small detail around their use the other day, I thought it wise to note it down.

Azure API Management Subscriptions operate at three scope levels: …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Azure API Management | Subscription Contract Names

Problem Space

Subscriptions are a nice and easy method of securing your APIs in APIM, however as I bumped into a small detail around their use the other day, I thought it wise to note it down.

When a Subscription Key is required on an API, as an invoker I will need to provide either a Header or a …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Azure API Management | API Mocking

Problem Space:

I have been recently looking into setting up some APIs within API Management. I do not currently have any backing services to hook the API’s to and I would like to decouple development of the front end systems from the backend. Thankfully Azure API Management has provided the …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Sunday, September 18, 2022

Azure API Management | Purge Soft-Deleted Instance

Problem Space:

Around June 2020 a change was made to Azure API Management whereby any deletion of the instance via the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, and REST API version 2020-06-01-preview or later will result in the instance being soft-deleted.

This is to allow for recoverability of a …

Posted by Andrew Wilson on Wednesday, September 7, 2022

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Andrew Wilson
Husband - Father - Microsoft Azure MVP - Chief Consulting Officer @ Black Marble

Has a passion for creating software [especially solution integrations] that help others execute their jobs faster and more efficiently.

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