Getting Started with Azure Storage Accounts: Create and Manage Blob Containers with Ease"

What is Azure Blog Storage

Azure Blob Storage can be described as a big virtual container or storage room where you can keep all kinds of things. Instead of physical objects, you store digital files, like pictures, videos, documents, or even computer programs.

Just like you organize your belongings in different boxes or folders, in Azure Blob Storage, you organize your files into containers called "blobs." Each blob can hold one or more files.

1. Prerequisite

2. Create your Storage Account

3. Create your Blob Container

5. Types of Access Tier

1.Prerequisite

a) If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

2. Create your Storage Account

a) Sign in to the Azure portal and click on the search bar for "storage account"

click on the create a resources

in the search bar type in storage account,

click on create and create new to create your resource group

Scroll down to the instance details to input your globally unique storage account name, and select the region you want your storage to be deployed in.

on the primary service select Azure Blob Storage or Azure Data Lake storage Gen 2

To save cost, click on "standard" for your performance option. However, if you require low latency you can choose "premium"

For redundancy, select "Geo-redundant storage(GRS)" This option has a failover capability in a secondary region and is recommended for backup scenarios. They are also stored in two regions

You can select any of the redundancy options based on your needs, but for this guide, we are going with GRS.

Click on "Next: Advanced, and scroll down to the Blob storage section. while you leave security, Hierarchical Namespace and Access protocols as default.

j)On the Access tier click on "hot" to frequently access your data at any time.

(Please note that there are three types of Access tiers available: Hot, Cool, and Cold. When creating a storage account, only the Hot and Cool tiers can be seen below.

Click on Next: Networking> to configure your networking

On the Networking page, go to "Network connectivity" and enable public access from all networks.

When enabled, the URL of the storage can be accessed over the internet. If it is disabled, it becomes private and accessible to you alone.

Scroll down to Network routing and leave the preference in the default state "Microsoft network routing"

Click on Next to Data protection

On the Data protection page, leave it in its default state. The purpose of this page is to retrieve your deleted storage within a minimum retention period of 7 days.

Skip the other settings and go to Review.

On the Review page, you can see a summary of all that you've done. Click on "Create"

Once validation is passed, click on "Review +create"

This will take you to the deployment page, once the deployment is complete, click on "Go to resource"

You will be directed to the storage account page

Create Your Container

Now that we have our storage account ready, let's get inside to create our container.

a) Click on your created storage account to have an overview.

b) Scroll to the left of your storage page, under data storage and click on "Container"

c) On your container page click on "+ addContainer" to create your container

d) This will direct you to the page displayed below

di) Give your container a name.

dii) On the public access level, click on the dropdown and pick "Blob" to grant public access over the internet.

dii) Click on the "create" button

f) Click on the upload button to upload a document or picture (Unstructured data).

G)Click on "Browse for files" or drag and drop your image and select the container

The above instruction will direct you to your folder on your desktop, select an image of your choice and open it to upload.

I) Your image will upload as shown below in your container.

j) Once you click on the Uploaded blob, copy the URL.

k)Paste the URL on your web browser to publicly gain access to the document