Automatically Delete/Expire Azure Blobs after a time period

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Jacob Horbulyk picture Jacob Horbulyk · Feb 9, 2016 · Viewed 28.2k times · Source

With Azure Blob storage is it possible to either have an individual blob or all blobs within a container delete themselves after a certain period of time similar to Amazon AWS S3's Object Expiration Feature? Or does Azure storage not provide such functionality?

Answer

Noke picture Noke · Nov 14, 2019

It is possible with the Azure Blob storage lifecycle. Please take a look here

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/storage-lifecycle-management-concepts?tabs=azure-portal

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