Updates for Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer!

What is Azure Storage Explorer?

Storage Explorer is a great tool that allows you to manage contents of your Azure storage account. It allows you to upload, download and manage blobs, files, queues and cosmos DB entries. Moreover it gives you easy access to manage your virtual machine disks which you can work with either Azure Resource Manager or storage accounts. Another feature is being able to manage cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) rules. Storage Explorer also works with Sovereign Azure Cloud and Azure Stack.

What are the updates for Azure Storage Explorer?

After Microsoft have now made Storage Explorer available to the public they have added new features into their 1.1 update release to align with the platform. These updates include:

  • Azurite cross-platform emulator
  • Access tiers that efficiently consume resources based on how frequently a specific blob is accessed
  • The removal of SAS URL start time to avoid any issues with datacentre synchronisation

 

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