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# How to connect your Azure Blob Storage

Connecting your Azure Blob Storage account to Weap.io is simple and quick.

### 1. Create an Azure Storage account

Open your Azure portal and on the sidebar hover your mouse over `Storage accounts` until a small modal appears. On the modal click `Create`.

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Now it's time to configure the new storage. Create a new resource group with an intuitive name (we named it `weap-backups` for this example).

Next, you must type a unique `Storage account name`. This must be unique across all existent Azure storage names.

The next thing is to select a region. For this example, we selected `Germany West Central`.

The `Standard` performance is more than enough but if you want, feel free to choose `Premium`.

As `Redundancy` we selected GRS, but again, fell free to change it if you have different requirements.

As the final step, click the button `Review + create` and proceed with the creation of the new storage.  

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### 2. Create a new container

After creating the storage, click the button `Go to resource`.

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On the resource page, click `Containers` on the left sidebar and then click `+ Container` to create a new container.

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A new sidebar on the right will appear. Give a name to your container and click `Create`. Remember this name because you will need it later.

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### 3. Generate the Access Key

On the resource page click `Access keys` on the left sidebar.

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Now you can see the access keys for your new storage. Copy the `Storage account name` and the first `Key`.

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### 4. Add the storage to Weap.io

Open your Weap.io dashboard and go to the **`Storages`** settings. Click the **`Add storage`** button, select  the `Azure Blob Storage` provider and fill the form with the follwoing details:

* `Friendly name`: a name to easily recognize your storage account later in the Weap.io dashboard
* `Azure account`: the name of your Azure Storage account you choosed at step 1. For this example we used `weapbackups`
* `Azure Access Key`: the key you generated at step 3
* `Azure Blob Container`: the container you generated at step 2. We used `my-backups-container` for this example 

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