What access will we have to our ASM data after 31 August 2024?

Question

The email we received said:

"After 31 August 2024, you’ll no longer be able to perform any classic storage account management operations through the classic deployment model. However, your data will be preserved and unaffected by this change." (my emphasis)

We are considering leaving some data in place beyond 31 August as a long-term backup. Is restoring data via the Storage Browser considered a "classic storage account management operation"? If it is, what means will be available to access the data which is preserved and unaffected?

Answer 1

Hi Jeff,

First I would recomend to migrate to the new version of storage account , even if you will leave data as backup , you can get additional benefits like archive data with less cost .

On the other hand if you still required to leave data on storage account classic the documentation refeer that you can access to this data by data SDKs therefore Microsoft.Azure.Storage.Blob is officially retired and is not supported or maintained and you will need to switch to Azure.Storage.Blobs package. Additionally if you are using tools such us Azure Storage explorer you need to check if they will continue supporting classic access by the release notes .(https://github.com/microsoft/AzureStorageExplorer/releases)

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References:

• Migrate your classic storage accounts to Azure Resource Manager by August 31, 2024
• https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-classic-resource-providers-will-be-retired-on-31-august-2024/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1366979/classic-azure-storage-account-migration

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Luis