How to access an object in Microsoft Azure Storage Service publicly?

Question

I worked with Amazon S3, but problems with billing (Amazon does not provide invoices for companies other than the PDF version and the online version, which means nothing legally) forces my company to switch to Microsoft Azure. I am new to Azure, so I would like to upload some images that will be stored in Azure, I found that Blob is called "Storage", after several studies I was able to create my account in the storage service, and I access it using " Azure Storage Explorer, "it seems strange to me that Microsoft does not provide a web interface for accessing and downloading, downloading and other things with a web browser.

1) Is there another software available to me for the vault account? Or another way to do this?

2) What is the difference between a "public container" and a "public blob"?

3) I would like to create subfolders, how can I do this?

4) How can I make an image that I upload to a "public blog" called "image" that was like this image\azure.png , and was available to anyone on the Internet?

In S3 (from Amazon), you can tell if this object is open, and then access it from a specific URL. Is this possible with Azure Storage?

I know a lot of questions, but for me it seems a little difficult to understand these things and how to get them to work now.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Here are the answers to your questions:

• The only "official" way to access your storage account is through the REST API (or SDK using this API). In addition, there are several good tools that allow you to access your storage account:

  • http://www.cerebrata.com/products/cloudstoragestudio/
  • http://www.cloudberrylab.com/free-microsoft-azure-explorer.aspx
  • https://www.myazurestorage.com/ (on the website!)
  • http://azurestorageexplorer.codeplex.com/

• An open container allows you to get a list of all the blocks available in this container and get the metadata of the container. Public blob means you need to know the exact blob url in order to access it. Link: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd179354

• Directories really don't exist. Just rename your blob to "mydir / myblob.txt", for example, to simulate directories. If you use the CloudBerry tool, you will see the directory structure (I use this to store files).

• Change the permission of the container to the public blob, upload the image. It will then be available at the URL (here I assume your container is called an image ): http://YOURSTORAGEACCOUNTHERE.blob.core.windows.net/image/azure.png