Easy steps to creating and working with a blob storage

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Hi there! Are you having troubles creating and working with a blob storage? Here are few easy sequential steps to creating and working with a blob storage. Stay with me as I carefully guide you through this process. In the meantime, let me walk you through what a blob storage is.
A blob storage is optimized for storing large amount of unstructured data, such as texts, pictures, binary data etc. Data are stored under three tiers, Hot (optimized for storing data that are frequently accessed), Cold (optimized for storing data that are not frequently accessed and are stored for at least 30 days) and Archive (optimized for storing data that are rarely accessed and are stored for at least 180 days).
Here are detailed steps to creating a blob storage.
Step 1: Login to your Azure portal from your browser, portal.azure.com.

Step 2: In the search box/bar, type storage. Click storage account from the list of auto-suggested services.

Step 3: On the storage account dashboard, click create

Step 4: Fill in the basic details. This allows you to customize your storage account to whatever suites you. The basic details include:
a) Project details: In this field you select your subscription group and your resource group (you can create a new one if you don't have an existing one.

b) Instance details: This field permits you to name your storage account, select the region, performance type and redundancy. The region, performance and redundancy can be left on default parameters to save stress.

Step 5: Leaving other parameters on default, proceed to review and create. Click create after validation is passed and await deployment.

Step 6: After successful deployment, click 'go to resource' to view your storage account.

Step 7: On your storage account, click upload to add a file to the storage to ascertain its functions.

Step 8: Now, you need to create a new container, as containers are light-weight virtualized environment that does not require operating system management and can respond to changes on demand. Click 'create new'.

Step 9: Change the anonymous access level to blob. However, if there's an error message, go to blob service and enable the blob anonymous access.

Step 10: Upload a file! Click browse for files to add a file from your storage. Upload the file to your blob storage account.

Step 11: Test your blob storage. On the storage account dashboard click data storage, a drop down menu appears showing containers, file shares etc. Click containers, you'll find the container you created. Click the container and copy the file's url.