Azure Storage Services

• Refer Here for the official docs
• Azure Provides storage services out of which to deal with the below we need storage account
  • blob storage
  • file share
  • Table storage
  • Queue Storage

Azure Storage Account

• Azure Storage account is a service for offering storage services around
  • blobs
  • file shares
  • table storage
  • Queue Storage
• To Store Blobs, We need to create containers. In Each container we can unlimited number of files.
• Each file in Azure Storage account cannot be greater than 4.7 TiB
• Creating a Storage Account: Refer Here for the docs
  
• Lets add some data to storage account
  
  
  
• Storage Account name has to be unique across Azure
• url of the object will be in the following pattern https://<storageaccountname>.blob.core.windows.net/<container-name>/<filepath>
• since the storage account and container names are part of urls they need to follow the naming constratints of urls

Exercise

• Create a storage account with any name.
  • Create two containers
    • public access level = private (no anonymous access)
    • public access level = blob
  • Now upload some files into private container and some into public container
  • Access the blobs using browser in public container
  • Do the same thing for blobs in private container and make a note of error.