Azure Files (or File Storage) is one of the extra offerings of the Azure Storage service. While Azure Blob storage allows you to store your files in a hierarchical manner and is designed for application development and integration, sometimes you need a file share, which can be integrated with your OS and act as additional storage for files and data. In this section, I will show you how you can set such a share up and configure it for use.
To perform this exercise, you will need a Storage account. You can use Azure PowerShell, the Azure portal, or the Azure CLI for that, depending on your expertise and what you are used to. If you want to learn what commands should you use, refer to the previous sections of this chapter.
Note that you need a general-purpose account (either v1 or v2 as there are two types of accounts available) to use the file share feature. This functionality is not available for storage types created with a Blob type.
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