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Storage access tools - Azure Tutorial
From the course: Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate (AZ-104) Cert Prep by Microsoft Press
Storage access tools
(silence) - [Instructor] When dealing with storage accounts in Azure, certainly when we want to copy data around and into them, we can use a couple of tools that are available for download. The first is AzCopy. The other is the Azure Storage Explorer. Both can be downloaded from the Microsoft website, and we'll start with the AzCopy first. So it's a standard command line tool which we can download from the Learn Microsoft website. Once we've got it on our computer, we can use it to download or upload files to our storage counts. So I've copied the AzCopy file here into my documents folder, and I've also got this file here called mytextfile.txt. So to copy that file up to my storage account, I use the AzCopy copy command, tell it the location of the file I want to upload, and then the destination. Because I'm copying this to a storage count, what I need to do is create a SaaS token to give me access to write data to it. So I've got a container here called public in my storage account…