azure-storage

SKILL.md

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.