Create and Use Azure Blob Storage

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Lab Overview

Azure Blob storage is Microsoft’s object storage solution for the cloud. Blob storage is optimized for storing massive amounts of unstructured data. Unstructured data is data that doesn’t adhere to a particular data model or definition, such as text or binary data.

Blob storage is designed for things like serving images or documents directly to a browser, storing files for distributed access, streaming videos and audio, and writing to log files.

Learning Objectives

In this Azure simulation, you will be guided through the process of provisioning blob storage in an Azure storage account. You’ll also create an SAS for it and test access.

Exam Relevance

The skills you learn in this lab are necessary to pass the following Azure certification exams:

    • AZ-104
    • AZ-303
    • AZ-304

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