Azure Storage Accounts allow you to store data in the cloud in a secure, scalable, and highly available way. A Storage Account provides storage of four broad categories of data objects: blobs, tables, queues, and files. In this article, I will focus on blobs, showing you how to use the Azure Portal to upload files into an Azure Storage Account Blob Container.

Log in to the Azure Portal and navigate to the Azure Storage Account, as shown in Fig. 1.

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Select [Storage browser] (Fig. 2) in the left menu to display the "Storage browser" blade, as shown in Fig. 3.

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Click the "Blob containers" panel (Fig. 4) to display a view with "Blob containers" selected, as shown in Fig. 5.

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Click the [Add container] button (Fig. 6) to display the "New container" dialog, as shown in Fig. 7.

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At the "name" field, enter a name for a container.

The Anonymous Access dropdown is enabled if you have enabled anonymous access for the storage account. In this case, it is disabled, so anonymous access is not an option for this container.

Click the [Create] button (Fig. 8) to create the container.

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The dialog closes, and the new container should display in the view, as shown in Fig. 9.

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Click the container to open it and click the [Upload] button (Fig. 10) to open the "Upload blob" dialog, as shown in Fig. 11.

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Click the "Browse for files" link and select files on your computer, or drag files from Windows Explorer onto the dialog. If files with the same name are already stored in the container, check the "Overwrite" checkbox to overwrite these files with new ones.

Click the [Upload] button to begin uploading files.

When the files finish uploading, they should appear in the container view, as shown in Fig. 12.

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