# Need Azure blob storage
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-azure-blob-storage/163585
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 10, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-azure-blob-storage/163585 "2020-09-10T06:27:25Z")
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### Author:  [@Ludovik\_Dopierala](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Ludovik_Dopierala)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-azure-blob-storage/163585/1 "2020-09-10T06:27:25Z")
Hello,
Microsoft Azure is more and more used and it’s a serious competitor in plublic cloud.
Did you know if discourse will me implement natively azure blob for backup or store image ?
Where I can found the road map ?
Thank you
Ludo
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [February 20, 2021, 3:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-azure-blob-storage/163585/2 "2021-02-20T15:23:46Z")
> [@Azure Blob Storage Plugin](https://meta.discourse.org/t/azure-blob-storage-plugin/79392):
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> [discourse-azure-blob-storage](https://github.com/discourse/discourse-azure-blob-storage) floppy_diskI have created the Azure Blob Storage plugin as part of my [Outreachy](https://www.outreachy.org/) internship with Discourse. It allows storing uploads into the [Azure Blob storage](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/blobs/). Azure account If you don’t have an Azure account yet, [create one for free](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/) In your Microsoft Azure portal, go to Storage account and add a new account - make sure to select Blob storage under Account kind Go over to your newly created storage account and find Containers in the settings. Add a container i…
There is an unofficial pluging for it.
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### Author:  [@schungx](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schungx)
#### Post date: [August 31, 2021, 4:43am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/need-azure-blob-storage/163585/3 "2021-08-31T04:43:28Z")
The Azure Blob Storage plugin no longer works and has been broken for a while.
Instead, follow the instructions here:
> [@Configure an S3 compatible object storage provider for uploads](https://meta.discourse.org/t/using-object-storage-for-uploads-s3-clones/148916#azure-blob-storage-with-flexifyio-10):
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> information_source This topic covers how to configure some common S3 compatible Object Storage providers (S3 clones). See [Set up file and image uploads to S3](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-file-and-image-uploads-to-s3/7229) for more details about Amazon AWS S3 configuration, which is officially supported and used internally by Discourse for our hosting services. Provider Service Name Works with Discourse? [Amazon AWS](#aws-s3-2) S3 Yes [Digital Ocean](#digital-ocean-spaces-3) Spaces Yes [Linode](#linode-object-storage-4) Object Storage Yes [Google Cloud](#google-cloud-platform-storage-5) Storage Yes [Scaleway](#scaleway-object-storage-6) Object Storage Yes [Vultr](#vultr-object-storage-7) Obj…