Azure Files
Azure Files is a fully managed cloud file share service from Microsoft Azure that provides hosted SMB and NFS file shares accessible from cloud and on-premises clients using standard file system protocols and the FileREST HTTPS API. It supports identity-based authentication via Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, snapshots, soft delete, and Azure File Sync for hybrid scenarios. The FileREST data-plane API uses shared key, shared access signatures (SAS), or Microsoft Entra ID OAuth 2.0 bearer tokens for authentication, while the control plane uses Azure Resource Manager.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Azure Files the way a machine reads it — 12 machine-readable artifacts across 6 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Azure Files scores 29.6/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (agent aware). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Azure Files
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Azure Files. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 6
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Azure Files FileREST API
Data-plane HTTPS REST API for operations on file shares, directories, and files in Azure Files, including create, copy, lease, list, range, and snapshot operations. Authenticati...
Azure Storage Resource Provider API (File Services / Shares)
Azure Resource Manager REST API for managing storage accounts, FileService settings, and FileShare resources at the control-plane level. Authentication uses Microsoft Entra ID O...
Azure Files Account API
Account-level file service operations
Azure Files Directories API
Directory operations within a share
Azure Files Files API
File operations
Azure Files Shares API
File share operations
Open Collections 1
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Azure Files FileREST API
OPEN COLLECTIONSecurity Posture 3
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Scopes 1
OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.
OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Azure Files — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 1
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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