What is the best way to share blob storage externally?

Question

Hello,

I have a large amount of data in a container within my Azure Storage Account. I am trying to figure out the best way to transfer the data to a group outside of my organization (this is authorized activity). I have been doing research and found a few options:

1. Create an Access Policy and a SAS key tied to the policy - in order to do this do I have to have public access enabled on the container?
2. Azure Data Share - seems like the receiver needs to have an azure account.
3. SharePoint - most people already do this in the org but my data is already living in the storage account and don't want to duplicate it in the environment if I can avoid it.

Does anyone have any best practices for this? If possible I would like to minimize the administrative efforts of the receiving org......aka, if they don't have an Azure Account, I don't want to force it on them.

I have been through a decent amount of Azure training and this was never a big topic, am I missing something?

Thank you

Answer 1

HI Matthew - go with the first option when sharing with external vendors - use file level SAS for better security.

Azure data share is the good option when you want to sync your data between two azure account and share the updates. it works based on timely sync of snapshot between two datastores.