Private Endpoints and Storage Container

Question

I am experimenting with Private Endpoints and Storage Accounts/Containers. I believe I have created all the supporting objects, including the Private Endpoint. Now I cannot access the Storage Containers within the Account from the Portal. How do I do this?

Answer 1

Hi David,

Not being able to access data from the portal is normal when you have your storage account configured to only allow access via Private Endpoint.

In order to access the data in your storage account you need to access it via the Virtual Network that has access to your Private Endpoint. For example, you could have a VM on the Virtual Network, connect to this VM using Azure Bastion (or other method), and then connect to the storage account to access blobs.

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Thanks.

-TP

Answer 2

Hi Pendleton, David,

When you enable private endpoint and disable public network access you are restricting the communication to the virtual network only , If you want to continue having the access by azure portal I suggest to move the firewall of the storage account to "selected virtual networks and IP address" (https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-network-security?tabs=azure-portal)

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Luis