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Azure Storage

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).

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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

Tier	Use Case	Performance
Standard	General purpose, backup	Milliseconds
Premium	Databases, high IOPS	Sub-millisecond

Tier

Use Case

Performance

Standard

General purpose, backup

Milliseconds

Premium

Databases, high IOPS

Sub-millisecond

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

Tier

Access Frequency

Cost

Hot

Frequent

Higher storage, lower access

Cool

Infrequent (30+ days)

Lower storage, higher access

Cold

Rare (90+ days)

Lower still

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

Azure Storage

Azure Storage Services

Services

MCP Server (Preferred)

CLI Fallback

Storage Account Tiers

Blob Access Tiers

Redundancy Options

Service Details

SDK Quick References

Azure SDKs