How would you answer an interview scenario involving Azure Storage in Microsoft Azure?
For an interview scenario involving Azure Storage, I would first clarify the business goal, scale, constraints, and the failure or quality attribute the interviewer wants to explore. Azure Storage provides Blob, Queue, Table, and File services for scalable cloud storage. In this scenario, for storing uploaded documents, explain container design, access control, SAS usage, lifecycle management, redundancy, and how the application should authenticate securely. For production, prefer Entra ID and managed identities, disable unnecessary public access, select the right redundancy tier, apply lifecycle rules, and use private endpoints for sensitive workloads. I would then explain the main alternatives and tradeoffs, identify likely failure modes, and describe how I would validate the solution through testing, observability, security controls, and recovery or rollback planning.