A lot of my customers have a business requirement that –
- once a document is written in storage account, nobody shall be able to modify or delete it, including the administrators
AND / OR- audit data can be written only once, and nobody shall be able to alter them.
These kind of business requirements are called WORM (Write Once, Read Many) and are common for various industries such as ISVs, financial or healthcare. Have you run into these mission-critical requirements? If yes, then immutable storage would be the solution.
Read on to see how this works, using retention policies. But ash Khushbu notes, if you set an absurd retention policy (up to 400 years), you can’t change the data while that policy is active.