Using a Microsoft Managed Storage Account when enabling Azure VM Boot Diagnostics feature is an advantage to the customers, where they eliminate one more Storage Account that they need to manage. That’s awesome! Taking in consideration that the amount of data stored is very minimal, two files per VM. But still there is Storage Account to manage, not to mention the amount of those files that are being created and no one cleans them after the VM is deleted!

In many occasions you will face a need to use PowerShell from an Azure VM (or VM Scale Set) to connect to an Azure Storage Account to store or to retrieve some data which most probably could be a blob within a container. At the same time, you’d like to store blobs securely and avoid having public accessible blobs. You are more likely want to avoid the need to create Shared Access Signatures (SAS tokens), or even expose and manage the Storage Account Access Keys.