What is storage account
An Azure Storage service group is contained within a storage account. A storage account can only contain data services from Azure Storage. An Azure resource that is a member of a resource group is a storage account.
There are four types of storage account in Azure namely:
- Blob storage
- Azure Files
- Azure Queues
- Azure Tables
Creating a storage account.
- Log into your azure account.
- Click create
- Search storage account in the market place
- Select storage account and click create
- Fill in the project details which include subscription and resource group; you can choose an existing group or create a new one
- Next is to fill the instance details which comprises storage account name, region, performance and redundancy. You can choose any name for your storage account.
- Leave other settings as default and click review
Once the validation is passed, click create
Wait for it to deploy
After deployment is complete, click go to resource
This will take you to overview page of your storage account
How to upload and access uploaded files in storage account
- In the overview page, change blob anonymous access to enabled by clicking on it, select enabled and click save
- Click container
- Click + container to create a new container
- Supply the name for your container, change the access level to blob and click create
- This will bring you to the page with the newly created container
- Open the new container by clicking on it and select upload.
- Browse for files to upload
- Click upload
- Once the upload is successful, the uploaded file will be listed in your container
How to access the uploaded file in a container
- Click on the file and copy the file url
- Open a new browser, paste and search the copied url
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