Overview Of Azure Blob Storage

In this article, we will explore creating an Azure Blob Storage and uploading a document file to it. Let’s get started about exploring the basics of Azure Storage first and its uses. The Azure Storage is cloud storage that has the capability of providing Storage, Security, Stability, and it’s very elastic and has the capacity to store and process terabytes of data. Since the Azure Storage is cloud storage this is to be categorized under PaaS (Platform as a Service).

Types of Azure Storages

The Azure storage is classified into the following types such as,

Azure Blob Storage
Azure Queue Storage
Azure Tables
Azure Files

Azure Blob Storage

The expansion of BLOB is Binary Large Object, and it is used to store large amounts of unstructured data and we can access that data from anywhere in the world by using HTTP or HTTPS. The unstructured data may be images, audio, videos, or log files. The data which has been stored can be exposed to public or can be made to store in a private manner and we can store the data in the following ways:

Direct Method
Indirect Method

For uploading the files to the blob storage first, we need to create an Azure Storage account and then we need to create a container so that we can process the further stage using it.

Prerequisites

Active Azure portal login subscription.

Step 1

First, we need to create an Azure storage account and next to that we need to create a container. For that log in to your Azure portal with the following link.

Now select >> create new resource >> storage >> Storage account.

Step 2

After selecting the storage account, now it’s time for the setting up and for that follow the steps as mentioned below.

Provide a storage account name for creating a storage account and select the subscription that you are using.

Select the resource group or create a resource group and create the Azure storage account in the inside of the resource group.

Select the geographic location for storage, in addition to that we need to select the replication as Read-access geo-redundant storage, then select >> Networking.

Now after switching to networking select >> Public endpoint (all networks) and select >> create.

Now we can see the deployment process is being in underway and it will take some time depending on network speed and after that, we can see the deployment process is complete.

Step 3

As I said first, we need to create an Azure storage account and then we need to create a container. The next step after creating the storage account is to navigate to blobs & select >>container for creating a new container so that we can upload the files to the container.

Step 4

Before creating the container select >> Container provides a name to the container & select the public access level and then click >> Ok.

Step 5

Now we can see the creation of container is successful, the created container will be empty since it does not contain any files inside of it. Now for that select >>upload select a file & select >>upload.

Now the file has been uploaded to the container, and we can see the name of the document with the blob type and file size uploaded to it. Now we can either share the file to the public or we can keep the file in a private manner.

Summary

In this article, we have seen about Azure storage, container, and uploading files to the blob storage. I hope this article will be useful to you. Thanks for reading.