Introduction
Storage accounts are one of the fundamental pieces of cloud technology. They contain all of our Azure Storage data objects: blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. Microsoft offers several options to store data on the cloud. Storage can be used for two purposes:
- One is to actually store files, just as we do on a hard disk.
- The other is to use it as the backend of a Virtual Machine. Many services within Azure need a storage account, sometimes for logging and sometimes as a fundamental piece of the technology. By default, Virtual Machines run on a managed storage account, which is an abstraction on top of a storage account. We cannot use it to create a Virtual Machine on top of an unmanaged account.
In this article, we will look at how to create an Azure blob storage account and upload a file on the blob.