Windows Azure - Blob Storage And Creating Resource Group, Storage Account

In this article, I’ll show you how to create the Resource group, Storage account, Containers, and Blobs on Microsoft Azure portal. And then, how to upload files to the Microsoft Azure Storage Account.

Prerequisites

First of all, I’ll briefly tell about these terms.

Then we will see how we can create these objects and work on it.

Resource groups

Azure storage account

A general-purpose storage account gives you access to Azure Storage services such as Tables, Queues, Files, Blobs and Azure virtual machine disks under a single account, this is called Storage accounts.

• Durable and Highly Available
• Scalable (capacity and throughput)
• Security
• Performance Efficient

Container

The very first service of its kind in the cloud, Azure Container Instances (ACI) is a new Azure service delivering containers with great simplicity and speed and without any Virtual Machine infrastructure to manage.

Blob

Azure Blob storage is Microsoft's object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data, such as text or binary data Storing data for analysis by an on-premises or Azure-hosted service.

Step 1

Accessing Microsoft Azure Portal, just type in the URL http://portal.azure command. Then, hit Enter.

This will Open up the Windows portal.

Step 2 (Create Resource Group)

First, go to click the Resource Group on the left blade. Now, you can see the currently available Resource groups.

And then, click the "Add" button.

Now, here, we need to provide some details.

After finishing the details, click the "Create" button.