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.