Upload Image to Azure Blob Storage Using Azure Portal

Kailash Chandra Behera | Sunday, May 14, 2023

Introduction

In my previous blog post, discussed how to post images to Azur Blob Storage using C#. Here in this blog post, we will see how to upload images to Azur Cloud Storage by using Azure Portal.

Getting Started

The Azure Blob Storage is a cloud storage where you can upload a file, image, other documents and many more which helps to build powerful cloud-native and mobile apps.

In my previous blog post, I have shared some code examples and explained in detail how to upload images to blob storage. If you are seeking a code to upload image, then visit my blog post.

If you want to know steps to download images from blob storage using Azure Portal, then visit my blog post Download Images from Azure Blob Storage where you can find the steps to download images from blob storage.

You must have access to the Azure storage account. If you don’t have access to then you need to connect to your administrator. you can continue to this blog If you have access to the Azure storage account.

The blob storage contains a list of Azure containers, you may get list of folder structures inside the azure container service. It depends on the own storage policy. Follow the below steps to upload image.

  1. Click here to open the Azure Portal on browser.

  2. Login into Azure Portal with your provided credentials, make sure that you have access to Azure containers.

  3. Click on the Storage Accounts, see the below image….

    azure storage account

  4. The list of Azure Storage Accounts will appear on the page. Click on you storage account.

  5. When you click on the storage account, on the right site a panel will open.

  6. Find the ‘Container’ and click on it. See the below image….

  7. photo download from azure container

  8. The list of Azure Containers will open in another panel right side.

  9. Click on your container. ‘test/media’ is my container.

  10. You may get a list of folders inside the Azure container; it depends on own storage architecture.

  11. Go to the folder when you want to upload photos.

  12. Click on the ‘Upload’ given above the container. See the image given below for upload button.

    blob storage in azure

  13. When you click on the ‘Upload’, a window like image give below will open on the right site.

    cloud storage on azure portal

  14. Drag the image file want to upload to the marked area or click on the browse.

  15. Click on the check box give for overwrite option, it will overwrite the uploaded image if already exists.

  16. After you are done with point number 13 and 14, click on the ‘Advance’ option to expand.

    upload image on azure portal

  17. The advance section is optional to configure the other settings for the upload operation.

  18. For example, upload a blob into a new or existing virtual folder or by supplying a value in the Upload to folder field.

  19. Click the Upload button to upload the blob.

  20. Upload as many blobs as you like in this way. You'll see that the new blobs are now listed within the container.

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What is Azure Storage Account?

The azure by Microsoft provides cloud storage facilities which contain all your data objects: blobs, files, queues, and tables is called Azure Storage Account. The could Azure storage account also provides a unique namespace for your Data Storage that is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. The data storage is durable and highly available, secure, and massively scalable.

What is Azure Blob Storage?

The Azure Blob Storage helps you create data lakes for your analytics needs and provides storage to build powerful cloud-native and mobile apps. Optimize costs with tiered storage for your long-term data, and flexibly scale up for high-performance computing and machine learning workloads.

What is Azure Container?

Microsoft Azure containers provide developers and organizations alike with the agility and scalability they are looking for in a cloud service, along with the two busy infrastructure that is needed. However, as beneficial as it is to build containers on Azure, they do not provide native integrated security. It is up to the customer to ensure the security of their Azure containers.

Summary

Here we learn about Azure Storage Account, Azure Blob Storage, and Azure Container. We also learn how to upload images by using Azure Portal. I hope this blog is helpful you to.

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