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

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:

• Blob storage patterns and lifecycle -> Blob Storage documentation

• File shares and Azure File Sync -> Azure Files documentation

• Queue patterns and poison handling -> Queue Storage documentation

SDK Quick References

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

• Blob Storage: Python | TypeScript | Java | Rust

• Queue Storage: Python | TypeScript

• File Shares: Python | TypeScript

• Data Lake: Python

• Tables: Python | Java

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.