Azure Storage Account Connection String

In this Azure article, we will discuss where to find Azure storage account connection string from the Azure Portal and use PowerShell.

Azure Storage Account Connection String

The Azure Storage Account Connection String contains the information that is required to access the data from your Azure Storage account from your application.

How to get Azure Storage Account Connection String using Azure Portal

Follow the below steps to quickly find the Azure Storage Account Connection String from the Azure Portal.

1. Log in to Azure Portal and navigate to your storage account.
2. On the Storage account page, click on the Access keys link from the left navigation that is present under the Security + networking tab.

3. You will see the connection strings under the Key1 and key2. Click on the Show button next to the Connection string to see the value of the connection string.

Now copy the connection string and utilize it wherever you need it.

How to get Azure storage account connection string using PowerShell

Follow the below steps

1. Open Windows PowerShell ISE with Run as administrator mode.
2. Execute the below PowerShell command to get the details of the Azure storage account connection string.

$myrsg = "Demo123"
$mystrgact = "demo123b08c"
(Get-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $myrsg  -Name $mystrgact).Context.ConnectionString

Note: Make sure to change the value for the name of the storage account and the Resource Group name as per yours.

After executing the above PowerShell script, I got the below output as expected.

BlobEndpoint=https://demo123b08c.blob.core.windows.net/;QueueEndpoint=https://demo123b08c.queue.core.windows.net/;TableEndpoint=https://demo123b08c.tabl
e.core.windows.net/;FileEndpoint=https://demo123b08c.file.core.windows.net/;AccountName=demo123b08c;AccountKey=177mjClvorkM5RzZwIM/EMaUQpJH+O1vFu1FwjvgL
q4xESDkJ3YCuF8On63+sm8XS3e+zizdzyKO+AStQYfGCQ==

You can see the same output below

How to get Azure storage account connection string using Azure CLI

You can also use the below command to get the Azure storage account connection string using Azure CLI.

az storage account show-connection-string --resource-group Demo123 --name demo123b08c

Note: Make sure to change the value for the name of the storage account and the Resource Group name as per yours.

After executing the above command, I got the below-expected output

"connectionString": "DefaultEndpointsProtocol=https;EndpointSuffix=core.windows.net;AccountName=demo123b08c;AccountKey=177mjClvorkM5RzZwIM/EMaUQpJH+O1vFu1FwjvgLq4xESDkJ3YCuF8On63+sm8XS3e+zizdzyKO+AStQYfGCQ==;BlobEndpoint=https://demo123b08c.blob.core.windows.net/;FileEndpoint=https://demo123b08c.file.core.windows.net/;QueueEndpoint=https://demo123b08c.queue.core.windows.net/;TableEndpoint=https://demo123b08c.table.core.windows.net/"

See the same output in the below screenshot.

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Wrapping Up

In this Azure article, we discussed how to get Azure Storage Account Connection String using Azure Portal, PowerShell, and Azure CLI. Thanks for reading this article !!!