I want to add an Azure storage account to a VNet / Network Security Group but keep receiving an Authorisation Failure message.
The error was: 'code: AuthorizationFailure content: _CYCLIC_OBJECT_ message: This request is not authorized to perform this operation.
I've added the VNet to the storage account with the Microsoft.Storage service endpoint and the subnets have been associated with the NSG.
I've created an inbound rule for the IP addresses and an outbound rule using the storage service tag on the NSG.
I've even tried it with an all internet inbound rule but no joy.
If I whitelist the IP address in the Firewall and Virtual Network settings on the storage account then it works fine.
Is there something that I'm missing?
In your comment, you want to manage the firewall rule of storage account via associated it with a VNet and NSG. This's not in the right direction.
You can not use network security rules for Azure Storage Services because the storage account can not be inside a VNet or a part of a VNet and the NSG works at the IP address, port, protocol level. For more information, you could refer to this answer.
In addition, if you have added selected VNets in the Firewall and Virtual Network settings on the storage account, it grants access storage account from a virtual network. So only selected VNet could access your storage account. It will appear access deny from your corporate network if you don't add its external IP address in the firewall.
You may want to create Private Endpoints for your storage account, which assigns a private IP address from your VNet to the storage account, and secures all traffic between your VNet and the storage account over a private link. With this, You can also use the firewall to block all access through the public endpoint when using private endpoints. Please note that currently, you can't configure NSG rules and user-defined routes for private endpoints.
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I am connecting to a client FTP Storage blob via FTP in Azure from a managed Azure VM. I want to force the VM's public IP to be used but it is forcing the Private IP connect, this can be seen from the client logs. What do i need to configure to force the use of the public IP?
Basically the vm from where you are trying to connect to and your
storage account need to be part of same Virtual Network and Subnet.
Check if the firewall is blocking and disable the firewall on the blob
storage .
Also check in your case if both vm and azure storage are in same region:
Services deployed in the same region as the storage account use private Azure IP addresses for communication.i.e; your VM uses the
internal network (over ipv6 and not the VMs published IP addresses
)to attempt to access the Storage so adding the public IP won't work
as IP network rules have no effect on requests originating from the
same Azure region as the storage account
Thus, you cannot restrict access to specific Azure services based on
their public outbound IP address range.Reference: Configure Azure
Storage firewalls and virtual networks | Microsoft Docs.
To allow same-region requests try to use Virtual network rules .
One way to try is by adding the Virtual Network subnet of the VM to
the firewall rules and adding Azure.Storage as service endpoint to
the subnet. If added through Azure Portal the service
endpoint will be automatically added .
Please check the references:
Allowing azure storage connectivity to a public IP - Microsoft Q&A
networking - Cannot to Azure blob storage from VM because of firewall - Stack Overflow
I have recently come across the Private Endpoint feature in Azure Storage and trying to implement it for secure access from a VNet. However, I am getting access issues while using Firewall, Virtual Network Service Endpoint and Private Endpoint all together.
I have two VNets (VNet1 & VNet2) in my subscription and an on-premises machine with Public IP to connect to Azure Storage. Following is my setup.
VNet1 with a Subnet enabled with Service Endpoint feature is whitelisted in Storage account firewall.
Next, I have created a Private Endpoint to this storage account (for blob service) from VNet2 which is also hosted inside the same Vnet.
Finally, I have whitelisted the Public IP of my on-premises VM to connect to the storage account under Firewall section.
Given the above setup, when I am trying to access this storage account blob containers inside a VM placed under VNet2, I am getting authorization issues.
May I please check if this setup is valid? Do Private Endpoint and Service Endpoint features work in Parallel?
Yes, private endpoints can be created in subnets that use Service Endpoints. Clients in a subnet can thus connect to one storage account using private endpoint, while using service endpoints to access others.
There are multiple ways to connect to storage account:
Using a private endpoint (private link) to connect to storage account: Please find the referred document here.
Using Service Endpoint and Private endpoint: Please find the referred document here.
You can find more details in this public document.
Is it possible to use a Private endpoint between two services -
In different VNETs
VNETs are in different subscriptions and VNETs have not peered
Subscriptions are in different Tenant
On similar lines, it seems, Private Link could also support the same - Support for across VNET sharing. Extract below -
"
Privately access services on the Azure platform: Connect your virtual network to services in Azure without a public IP address at the source or destination. Service providers can render their services in their own virtual network and consumers can access those services in their local virtual network. The Private Link platform will handle the connectivity between the consumer and services over the Azure backbone network"
Regards,
Nitin
In this case, I don't think it's possible without VNet peered.
After my validation, we can access the service in different subscriptions and different tenants with private endpoint and VNet to VNet peering enabled in each VNet.
In subA and TenantA, I created
VNetA and one Azure VMa without public IP deployed in that VNet. We can access the VM with a bastion host in that VNet. Refer to this.
In subB and TenantB, I create
a storage account and a private DNS zone privatelink.file.core.windows.net and a VNetB.
Enable the private endpoint for this storage account and storage subresource file, you may refer to this
Note, we should link the VNetA and VNetB in the same private DNS zone, then we can get the file share FQDN resolved to the private IP address from the Azure VMa. Also, we should use an account having enough permission on both subscriptions.
If without the VNet peering, the network connecting is blocked because the VNet A and VNet B belong to different isolation virtual networks and there is no routing from VNet A and VNet B.
If the VNet peering at each other, the network connecting is successful.
It's perfectly possible, works Private Endpoints works just fine across subscriptions and tenants. You just need to create them slightly differently. Create them from the destination side, then on the Resource page select "Connect to an Azure resource by resource ID or alias.". And paste the resource id you are connecting to. Resource ID can be obtained on the resource overview page - JSon link.
One it's done - go to the source->private endpoints and manually approve requested private endpoint.
When selecting Connect to an Azure resource by resource ID or alias, what's not very clear are the actual values for Resource ID or alias(2) and Target sub-resource(3).
In this example, I am referencing a storage account and file share.
Resource ID or alias = Resource ID of the storage account. e.g:
/subscriptions/aaaaa-1111-11111-aaaa-asasdas212/resourceGroups/myresourcegroup/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/mystorageaccount
Target sub-resource is the name of the sub-resource from the following list:
Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-private-endpoints#dns-changes-for-private-endpoints
I created a Subnet, where I connect a Cosmos DB as Service Endpoint. Besides the IP firewall of the Cosmos DB I want to control the Outbound via NSG rules. However if I create a rule, that denies all Outbound (also tested with deny all Inbound) it seems to have to effect, when connecting to the DB via the Mongo client.
Is this expected behaviour ?
Yes, It's expected behavior when access the Cosmos DB from service endpoint enabled VNet.
Here are two points in your question:
The NSG can be associated with a subnet or network interface level. In this case, when an NSG is associated with a subnet, the rules apply to all resources connected to the subnet. If a subnet NSG has a matching rule that denies traffic, packets are dropped, even if a VM\NIC NSG has a matching rule that allows traffic. Read here1 and here2.
When you enable a Cosmos DB as Service Endpoint in a VNet, it will extend your virtual network private address space and the identity of your VNet to the Azure services, over a direct connection. Traffic from your VNet to the Azure service always remains on the Microsoft Azure backbone network.
Today, Azure service traffic from a virtual network uses public IP addresses
as source IP addresses. With service endpoints, service traffic
switches to use virtual network private addresses as the source IP
addresses when accessing the Azure service from a virtual network.
This switch allows you to access the services without the need for
reserved, public IP addresses used in IP firewalls.
So, if you are accessing the Cosmos DB from a VNet, it will use the private IP address in that VNet to access the Azure Cosmos DB service. If you are accessing the Cosmos DB outside of Azure, you will be restrcited by the firewall IP address of the Cosmos DB.
I have an Azure Storage account and need to enable the storage firewall.
I have added the outbound IP addresses of my App Service, but the firewall still prevents access. (I know that these addresses can change, but they change predictably, so I can live with that.)
Is there a solution to grant an App Service access to the Storage account other than disabling the firewall (and other than using an ASE, which isn't an option)?
So it turns out that in a new Azure Storage account with a new App Service, setting the storage firewall to the outbound IPs of the App Service does work as expected. Unless the client browser is actually doing the download, adding the client's IP is not required.
Edit
This only works reliably when the storage account is in a different data centre to the App Service. When they are both in the same data centre, an internal outbound address (e.g. 10.x.x.x) is presented from the App Service to the Storage account. Internal addresses cannot be added to the Storage firewall.
If you access your web app service from on-premises networks, you need to grant access from your on-premise networks to your storage account with a public Internet-facing IP address used by your network. You can get more details from Grant access from an internet IP range
If you have VNet Integration with your apps. You should first enable service endpoints for storage in the VNet. You can refer to Grant access from a virtual network.