How many access policies can I create and add on the same one Azure container?

Question

I didn't find the answer by search. I thought I should be able to create many stored access policies on one container (at least thousands). But by tests, my program can only add up to 5 policies on one container.

Then I tried Microsoft Azure Storage Explorer, it also has this restriction, can add only up to 5. But I cannot find any description about this. Is there any way to remove this restriction? Thanks.

Answer 1

The access policy limit is indeed 5 stored access policies per container, file share, table, or queue. And there's no way to alter this. The limit is documented within Azure's Storage scalability and Performance Targets document, here.

Note: You are able to generate Shared Access Signatures independently of the stored access policies. These are just more limited (e.g. you cannot revoke a SAS; it's active until the time expires, unless you delete the blob).