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Azure Storage Accounts

Azure Storage is Microsoft's cloud storage solution for modern data storage scenarios offering highly available, massively scalable, durable, and secure storage for blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks.

agent ready

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Azure Storage Accounts the way a machine reads it — 157 machine-readable artifacts across 9 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 Storage Accounts scores 63.3/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (agent ready). 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 63.3/100 · strong
Contract Quality 14.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.2 / 13
Governance 10.4 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 48/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Azure Storage Accounts

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Azure Storage Accounts. 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 9

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 Storage Accounts BlobContainers API

The BlobContainers API from Azure Storage Accounts — 8 operation(s) for blobcontainers.

Azure Storage Accounts BlobService API

The BlobService API from Azure Storage Accounts — 2 operation(s) for blobservice.

Azure Storage Accounts LocationUsage API

The LocationUsage API from Azure Storage Accounts — 1 operation(s) for locationusage.

Azure Storage Accounts ManagementPolicies API

The ManagementPolicies API from Azure Storage Accounts — 1 operation(s) for managementpolicies.

Azure Storage Accounts Operations API

The Operations API from Azure Storage Accounts — 1 operation(s) for operations.

Azure Storage Accounts PrivateEndpointConnections API

The PrivateEndpointConnections API from Azure Storage Accounts — 1 operation(s) for privateendpointconnections.

Azure Storage Accounts PrivateLinkResources API

The PrivateLinkResources API from Azure Storage Accounts — 1 operation(s) for privatelinkresources.

Azure Storage Accounts Skus API

The Skus API from Azure Storage Accounts — 1 operation(s) for skus.

Azure Storage Accounts StorageAccounts API

The StorageAccounts API from Azure Storage Accounts — 11 operation(s) for storageaccounts.

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Azure Storage Accounts Context

21 classes · 56 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 2

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Azure Storage Accounts API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Azure Storage Accounts API Rules

18 rules · 5 errors · 9 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 46

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

AccountSasParameters

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ActiveDirectoryProperties

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

AzureFilesIdentityBasedAuthentication

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlobContainer

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlobRestoreParameters

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlobRestoreRange

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlobRestoreStatus

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlobServiceItems

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BlobServiceProperties

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ChangeFeed

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CheckNameAvailabilityResult

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ContainerProperties

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CustomDomain

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DateAfterCreation

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

DateAfterModification

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dimension

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Encryption

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EncryptionService

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

EncryptionServices

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Endpoints

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

GeoReplicationStats

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Identity

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImmutabilityPolicyProperties

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImmutabilityPolicyProperty

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ImmutabilityPolicy

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

IPRule

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

KeyVaultProperties

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LeaseContainerRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LeaseContainerResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LegalHoldProperties

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LegalHold

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListAccountSasResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListContainerItem

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListContainerItems

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ListServiceSasResponse

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagementPolicyAction

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagementPolicyBaseBlob

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagementPolicyDefinition

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagementPolicyFilter

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagementPolicyProperties

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagementPolicyRule

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagementPolicySchema

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ManagementPolicy

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RestorePolicyProperties

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

TagProperty

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

UpdateHistoryProperty

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 46

JSON Structure captures the data shapes in a form built for tooling — a complement to JSON Schema that keeps the model machine-legible.

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Azure Storage Accounts Dimension Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Storage Accounts Endpoints Structure

8 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Storage Accounts Identity Structure

3 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Azure Storage Accounts Ip Rule Structure

2 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

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Examples 46

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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Security Posture 2

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.

Azure Storage Accounts Authentication

oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Azure Storage Accounts Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Azure Storage Accounts Scopes

1 scope · implicit

1 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Azure Storage Accounts Agentic Access

40 operations · 26 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

40 operations · 26 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Azure Storage Accounts — 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 2

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

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/azure-storage-accounts · machine-readable index on apis.io