Managing access keys

To manage access keys, perform the following steps:

1. Navigate to the Azure portal by opening https://portal.azure.com.
2. Again, go to the storage account that we created in the previous step.
3. Once the overview blade is open, under Settings, select Access keys.
4. Here, you can see both of the access keys that were generated for you when the storage account was created. The reason that Azure created two access keys for you is because if you regenerate a new key, all of the SAS that you created for this key will no longer work. You can then let applications access that data using the secondary key, and once the key is regenerated, you can share the new key with your clients. You can generate new keys by clicking on the buttons next to both keys:

1. There is also a connection string provided for each key which can be used by client applications to access the storage account.

In the next section, we're going to generate an SAS for the access keys.