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azure-storage

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A Microsoft skill that helps Claude work with Azure Storage, Microsoft's cloud storage for files, backups and messages. It can upload and download files and help you pick a cheaper storage option for data you rarely use.

microsoft/azure-skills593,832 InstallsAdded Mar 4, 2026

Installation

$npx skills add microsoft/azure-skills --skill azure-storage

Run it in a terminal; it asks which AI coding tools to install it for (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and more).

Uses skills.sh · Node.js 22.20+

After installing

Ask for related work and the agent uses it on its own, or call it yourself.

Run it (Claude Code)/azure-storage

Install by hand

Copy the whole skill folder from GitHub to the place below. Copying only SKILL.md can leave out files the skill uses.

Open the skill folder →

This project .claude/skills/azure-storage/
All projects ~/.claude/skills/azure-storage/

These paths are for Claude Code. For other tools, the command above puts it in the right place.

📦Same repositorymicrosoft/azure-skills (51 items)

What this skill does

Overview

This skill covers five Azure Storage services: Blob Storage for files and other objects (called blobs), File Shares, Queue Storage for messages, Table Storage for simple data looked up by a key, and Data Lake for big data. It uses Azure MCP tools when they are turned on and falls back to the az storage command line tool when they are not. It also explains access tiers, which trade storage cost against access cost, and redundancy, which means how widely Azure copies your data to protect it.

Key Features

List storage accounts, containers (groups that hold blobs) and blobs, and upload or download files with azure__storage commands.
Do the same jobs with az storage blob, az storage file, az storage queue, az storage table and az storage fs when MCP is off.
Compare the Hot, Cool, Cold and Archive tiers to match cost with how often you open the data.
Choose a redundancy level from LRS, ZRS, GRS and GZRS based on how much protection you need.
Open quick SDK guides for Blob, Queue, File Share, Data Lake and Tables in Python, TypeScript, Java and Rust.

Who is this for?

It is for developers who store files, backups or app messages on Azure and want Claude to handle the commands. It also helps when you need to decide whether rarely used data should move to a cheaper tier.

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SKILL.md

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Azure Storage Services including Blob Storage, File Shares, Queue Storage, Table Storage, and Data Lake. Answers questions about storage access tiers (hot, cool, cold, archive), when to use each tier, and tier comparison. Provides object storage, SMB file shares, async messaging, NoSQL key-value, and big data analytics. Includes lifecycle management. USE FOR: blob storage, file shares, queue storage, table storage, data lake, upload files, download blobs, storage accounts, access tiers, storage tiers, hot cool cold archive, storage tier comparison, when to use storage tiers, lifecycle management, Azure Storage concepts. DO NOT USE FOR: SQL databases, Cosmos DB (use azure-prepare), messaging with Event Hubs or Service Bus (use azure-messaging).

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: In Copilot CLI or Claude Code, ask the user to run /mcp and enable Azure MCP; in other hosts, ask the user to enable Azure MCP through the host's MCP configuration.

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.

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