How To Create Azure Blob Storage

Let’s discuss here the process to Create Azure Blob storage. In order to create the Azure Bob storage, we need to consider doing a few things as bellow

Create an Azure storage account
Creation of a container in the Storage account created
Create a Blob

How to Create Azure Blob storage — Create a BlockBlobStorage account

How to Create Azure storage account, step by step

Now let’s discuss here, how to create a storage account. Refer to my article on an Easy way to Create an Azure storage account to create the Azure storage account using both the Azure portal and PowerShell.

Now you have the Azure storage account created, then it’s time to create the Azure storage container for the storage account you have created.

How to create a container in azure

Now, we will see how to create a blob container in azure. You can follow the below steps to create an Azure storage container using the Azure Portal.

Step-1: Navigate to the storage account you have created above in the Azure portal.

Note: I am using a different existing storage account but you can use the same account which you have created above.

Step-2: From the left menu for the storage account, from the Blob service section, select Containers.

How to create a Azure storage container — Introduction to Azure Blob storage

Step-3: Click on the + Container button.

Create a container in Azure — Create a storage account

Step-4: Provide a name for your new container.

Note: Few important things to note here while choosing a name for the new container. The container name must contain only lowercase, Should start with a letter or number, and can contain only letters, numbers, and (-) character.

Select an option for the Public access level. Better to select the default option Private (no anonymous access). You can change also based on your business needs.

Steps to create a Azure storage container — Create Azure Blob storage from scratch

Step-5: Now click on the Create button to create the container.

You can see the notification area where it will show that “Successfully created storage container”.

Easy steps to create the container in Azure — Azure blob storage

You can able to see the newly created container on the Storage account | Containers page

An easy way to create the container in Azure

This is how we can create the container using the Azure portal. Now we have both the storage account and container ready. The time to upload the Blob now

How to upload a block blob in azure

We can store text, and binary data in the cloud-like files, images, and videos in the Azure Block blobs. Let’s see the steps to upload a block blob to your new container or how to create a file in azure blob storage in the Azure portal.

Upload Files To Azure Blob Storage

Step-1: Navigate to the newly created container in the Azure portal which you have created above.

Step-2: Click on the newly created container name and then click on the Upload button.

Step-3: Now the upload blade will open. Click on the browse button and select your local file to upload as a block blob.

Once you selected the file from the local system, you can click on the Upload button to upload it as the block blob.

An easy step to upload a block blob in azure

It will show Upload completed for Filename.txt.

See below, Demo.txt file is uploaded successfully to the newly created demo container.

Here, we saw how to setup Azure blob storage

How to download a file from Azure blob storage

We discussed above, how to upload a blob into Azure Blob storage. Now time to discuss the option How do I download from BLOB storage from Azure blob storage.

To download the file from the Blob storage, you can follow the below steps

Step-1: Select the file you have uploaded using the above-mentioned steps.

How to download a file from Azure blob storage

Step-2: Right-click on the file/blob and then click on the Download option.

Or you can also click on the three dots(…) option and select the Download option from there

These are the two ways we can follow to download the file from the Azure Blob storage.

How to delete a file from Azure blob storage

Here we will discuss how to delete a blob from Azure blob storage using the Azure portal.

To delete the file from the Blob storage, you can follow the below steps

Step-1: Select the file you have uploaded using the above-mentioned steps, that you want to delete.

How to delete a file from Azure blob storage

Step-2: Right-click on the file/blob and then click on the Delete option.

Or you can also click on the three dots(…) option and select the Delete option from there

Now to confirm the deletion, you can click on the Ok button on the Delete blob(s) pop up.

If you want to delete the blob including the blob snapshots, you can select the delete blob snapshots option and then click on the Ok button.

Steps to delete a blob from Azure blob storage

How to create a folder in Azure blob storage

Consider a scenario where instead of uploading the file directly to the Azure storage container, you need to create a folder inside the Azure storage container and then upload the file/Blob inside that folder.

There is one way to do this, you can follow the below steps to do that.

Step-1: Navigate to the newly created container in the Azure portal which you have created above.

How to create a folder in Azure blob storage

Step-2: Click on the newly created container name and then click on the Upload button.

Step-3: Now the upload blade will open. Click on the browse button and select your local file to upload as a block blob.

Step-4: On the Upload blob window, browse the local file, and expand the Advanced option, enter the folder name for the Upload to folder option. Now click on the Upload button.

Steps to create a folder in Azure blob storage

Step-5: Now see here, It created a folder name as MyFolder inside the container.

Easy Steps to create a folder in Azure blob storage

Step-6: If you will go inside the folder, you can see the Hello.txt file/blob is present there.

Creation of a folder in Azure blob storage

This is how we can create folder structure in Azure blob storage.

Azure blob storage URL

Now, let’s discuss the Azure blob storage URL format.

A storage account provides helps you provide a unique namespace in Azure for your data. You can able to access each object which is stored in your Azure storage with the help of an address with an account name that is unique. Account name and the Azure Storage service endpoint combine together to form the endpoints for your storage account.

The default URL for accessing the Blob service in a storage account is https://<our account name>. blob.core.windows.net.

We can map our own domain or subdomain to the Blob service for our storage account so that users can browse using the custom domain.

You can also add a subdomain to the hostname For example, Add the subdomain “mysubdomain” to the hostname. The URL will be mysubdomain.mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net.

You can able to access the URL in the browser http://<subdomain.customdomain>/<mycontainer>/<myblob>

Azure Storage

Azure Storage is one of the key services provided by Microsoft. The core services for Azure storage mainly include disk storage for VMs, data objects storage, file storage, storage for messaging, NoSQL storage, etc.

The key features that Azure Storage provides are as below.

Highly Secure
Scalable
Accessible from anywhere
Durable and highly available

You can check out an end-to-end tutorial on Azure Storage now.

Upload File To Azure Blob Storage C#

You can upload files to Azure Blob storage easily using the C# language, Check out a complete article on Upload File To Azure Blob Storage C# now for more information.

Create a blob container in the account Azure CLI

Remember that, Blobs need to upload to the container first. So let’s discuss How to create a blob container using Azure CLI. You can use the below script to create the blob container

az ad signed-in-user show --query objectId -o tsv | az role assignment create \
    --role "Storage Blob Data Contributor" \
    --assignee @- \
    --scope "/subscriptions/<subscription>/resourceGroups/<Yourresourcegroupname>/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/<yourstorageaccountname>"

az storage container create \
    --account-name <yourstorageaccountname> \
    --name <yourcontainername> \
    --auth-mode login

So, using the above script, you can create a blob container in the account Azure CLI.

Azure Storage Explorer

Azure Storage Explorer is an excellent application that helps you to connect Azure storage accounts with any device. It supports multiple operating systems like Windows, Linux, Mac OS, etc.

You can check out an end-to-end tutorial on Azure Storage Explorer now.

Create Storage Account Azure CLI

Well, let’s discuss here, how to create a storage account using Azure CLI. Before that, we should know the Prerequisites needed to create the storage account using Azure CLI.

Prerequisites

The first most thing is you must have an Azure Subscription or Azure account. If you don’t have an Azure Account, Create an Azure free account now.
You must have installed the Azure CLI in your machine. If you have not yet installed the Azure CLI on your machine, then install the Azure CLI on your machine now.

To make sure you have installed the Azure CLI on your machine successfully, you can open the command prompt and then run the command az. You can able to see below, it is showing that “Welcome to Azure CLI!”.

Now, assuming you are ready with all the prerequisites needed here, let’s start the actual functionality i.e creating a storage account Azure CLI.

Now, as a next step, you need to use the az login command to log in to the Azure account using the Azure CLI.

how to create a storage account using Azure CLI

Now, it will prompt you to enter your Azure credentials to log in to the Azure account.

how to create a storage account Azure CLI

Once, you have logged in to your Azure account, you can able to see the below screen.

In case, you have multiple subscriptions, you can set a specific subscription using the below command.

az account set –subscription “YourSubscriptionName”

In order to create a storage account, the first step is to create a Resource Group. Let’s create a resource group.

Create a Resource Group using Azure CLI

You can execute the below cmdlet to create the Resource Group using the Azure CLI

az group create --location eastus --name mynewresgrp1

Now, once you have executed the above command, you will get the output as below.

Now, you can able to see the Resource group has been created successfully.

Now our Resource Group is ready, the next step is to Create Storage Account using Azure CLI.

Create Storage Account using Azure CLI

You need to execute the below command to create a storage account using the Azure CLI.


az storage account create --name demostoragesql9 --resource-group mynewresgrp1 --location eastus --sku Standard_LRS

Once we have executed the above command, you can able to see the below output.

Create a Storage Account using Azure CLI

This is how you can Create Storage Account using Azure CLI.

Azure Blob Storage Pricing

The Azure Blob storage pricing depends on the Data redundancy option (LRS/ZRS/GRS/RAGRS/ GZRS/RA GZRS) that you have selected, and the volume of data you are trying to store, types of operation with the data transfer cost.

You can check out Azure Blob Storage Pricing for more details on pricing.

Why Azure Blob Storage?

There are certain scenarios where it’s better to use Azure Blob Storage

When you have the requirement to store unstructured data.
Choose to store massive audio files, video files, text files, images files, etc.
When you have the requirement to store large files. Azure Blob Storage actually breaks the large files into small pieces and then individually uploads those small units.
When you have the requirements to provide the distributed access for your files and documents, then in this scenario, go with Azure Blob Storage.

Types of Azure Blob Storage

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Conclusion

Well, if you are new to Azure storage, I hope you got an idea of how to create a storage account in Microsoft Azure. Also, we saw how to create a container in Azure.

After we created the Azure container, we saw how to upload a block blob into the Azure container. Then we saw how to download and delete a file from Microsoft Azure blob storage.

Finally, we saw how to create a folder in Azure blob storage, Azure blob storage URL, Azure Storage, Upload File To Azure Blob Storage C#, Create a blob container in the account Azure CLI, Azure Storage Explorer, Create Storage Account Azure CLI, Azure Blob Storage Pricing. Hope you have enjoyed this article !!!