“In Preview” - A Word of Caution

As of me writing this post on 2018-10-07, deploying a static site on an Azure Storage account is in “preview.” Microsoft has specific terms of use for any of their services while they are in preview or beta.

I’m taking a bet that this will be a service that they convert to General Availability - especially since their biggest competitor, Amazon Web Services, also enables users to deploy static sites on their storage service, “S3”. I also have high hopes for more adoption of what is called the JAMstack, which essentially means that your site is static (only HTML, CSS, and Client-side JavaScript), but can make API calls

I am hoping there will be better support/options for SSL/TSL encryption when deploying a static site with custom domain on Azure Storage accounts. The current “work-around” for deploying your site with SSL/TSL is to make use of the Azure Content Delivery Network (CDN). Let’s see what that looks like as of right now.

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