How to connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

1. Create your Microsoft Azure Blob Storage

• Sign in to your Microsoft Azure Portal.

• Under Azure services, choose Storage Accounts. Your storage account list will be displayed. Choose the storage account you want to connect with.

• On the left menu, under Blob Service, choose Containers

• Click + Container to add a Container. Input the name you want for the container and click the Create button

• Your container has been created.

Information you'll need in step 3:

• Container Name

• Storage Endpoint, in this case is core.windows.net

2. Get your Storage Access Keys

In order to give access to your newly created storage, you'll need to provide credentials to SimpleBackups.

• On the left menu, under Settings, choose Access Keys.

• Please use the Key value under key1 as your access key.

Information you'll need in step 3:

• Access Key

• Storage Account Name

3. Connect your Bucket to SimpleBackups

• Log into SimpleBackups and head to the connect your storage page
• In the storage provider list select "Azure Blob Storage", and fill in the form with the information from step 1 and step 2

You'll have to input :

• Account Name: Account Name described in (step 2)
• Access Key: Secret Key described in (step 2)
• Container: Container name described in (step 1)
• Ending Suffix: your storage endpoint described in (step 1)
• Give your storage a name (usually we like to use the storage name) and click on "Save new storage".

And your storage is now connected!