Shared key authentication

- [Instructor] The simplest way to authenticate,…and authorized access for connecting to a storage account,…is something called Access Keys.…Take a look in the Azure portal,…select one of your storage accounts,…and below the overview you'll see an access keys entry.…Click on access keys,…and notice on the right hand side…there's quite a bit of detail.…First, the storage account name, significant…so you'll have a set of keys per storage account.…You'll have two keys, key one and key two,…so that you can rotate keys meaning…if an application is using the first key,…you can reset the second one,…and then let the application switch to the second key,…and then you can reset the first one.…

So that allows you to always have at least one…active and valid key, for applications to use…connecting to the storage account.…Notice that the keys though are essentially…your root access (mumbles) access, to the storage account…so given one of these keys, you'll have full access…and you can do anything.…So first off, try to avoid using these keys,…