Does the Azure copy command - azcopy use TLS 1.2 protocol

Question

This is regarding the copy of files from a linux server (on-premise) to the Azure storage account. We are using azcopy command.

We would like to know if the azcopy uses TLS 1.2 or not?

This is required to get security approvals.

Answer 1

Azure storage(Including Azcopy) uses TLS 1.2 on public HTTPs endpoints but TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 are still supported for backward compatibility. More can be found here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-security-tls