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Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Data Lake. Answers questions about storage access tiers (hot, cool, cold, archive), when to use each tier, and tier comparison. Provides object storage, SMB file shares, async messaging, NoSQL key-value, and big data analytics. Includes lifecycle management. USE FOR: blob storage, file shares, queue storage, table storage, data lake, upload files, download blobs, storage accounts, access tiers,...

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Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Data Lake. Answers questions about storage access tiers (hot, cool, cold, archive), when to use each tier, and tier comparison. Provides object storage, SMB file shares, async messaging, NoSQL key-value, and big data analytics. Includes lifecycle management. USE FOR: blob storage, file shares, queue storage, table storage, data lake, upload files, download blobs, storage accounts, access tiers,...

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Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Data Lake. Answers questions about storage access tiers (hot, cool, cold, archive), when to use each tier, and tier comparison. Provides object storage, SMB file shares, async messaging, NoSQL key-value, and big data analytics. Includes lifecycle management. USE FOR: blob storage, file shares, queue storage, table storage, data lake, upload files, download blobs, storage accounts, access tiers,... npx skills add https://github.com/microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-storage Download ZIPGitHub1.3k

Azure Storage Services

Services

Service Use When MCP Tools CLI Blob Storage Objects, files, backups, static content azure__storage az storage blob File Shares SMB file shares, lift-and-shift - az storage file Queue Storage Async messaging, task queues - az storage queue Table Storage NoSQL key-value (consider Cosmos DB) - az storage table Data Lake Big data analytics, hierarchical namespace - az storage fs

MCP Server (Preferred)

When Azure MCP is enabled:

  • azure__storage with command storage_account_list - List storage accounts

  • azure__storage with command storage_container_list - List containers in account

  • azure__storage with command storage_blob_list - List blobs in container

  • azure__storage with command storage_blob_get - Download blob content

  • azure__storage with command storage_blob_put - Upload blob content

If Azure MCP is not enabled: Run /azure:setup or enable via /mcp.

CLI Fallback

Copy & paste — that's it
# List storage accounts
az storage account list --output table

# List containers
az storage container list --account-name ACCOUNT --output table

# List blobs
az storage blob list --account-name ACCOUNT --container-name CONTAINER --output table

# Download blob
az storage blob download --account-name ACCOUNT --container-name CONTAINER --name BLOB --file LOCAL_PATH

# Upload blob
az storage blob upload --account-name ACCOUNT --container-name CONTAINER --name BLOB --file LOCAL_PATH

Storage Account Tiers

Tier Use Case Performance Standard General purpose, backup Milliseconds Premium Databases, high IOPS Sub-millisecond

Blob Access Tiers

Tier Access Frequency Cost Hot Frequent Higher storage, lower access Cool Infrequent (30+ days) Lower storage, higher access Cold Rare (90+ days) Lower still Archive Rarely (180+ days) Lowest storage, rehydration required

Redundancy Options

Type Durability Use Case LRS 11 nines Dev/test, recreatable data ZRS 12 nines Regional high availability GRS 16 nines Disaster recovery GZRS 16 nines Best durability

Service Details

For deep documentation on specific services:

SDK Quick References

For building applications with Azure Storage SDKs, see the condensed guides:

For full package listing across all languages, see SDK Usage Guide.

Azure SDKs

For building applications that interact with Azure Storage programmatically, Azure provides SDK packages in multiple languages (.NET, Java, JavaScript, Python, Go, Rust). See SDK Usage Guide for package names, installation commands, and quick start examples.