How to host a static website using Azure blob storage in 10 mins

Sneha Biswas
3 min readJun 16, 2020

Hello peeps! If you want to host a simple website quickly you have landed at the correct place. I will show you step by step process of how to host your website using Azure Blob storage. So let’s get started.

The first thing that we need is of course an Azure subscription. You can create an Azure subscription for free though you will have to have a card handy (don’t worry they won’t charge you unless you use a paid service). You will need blob storage which will be available for free for 12 months. For more information Click here.

Once you have the Azure subscription, go to the Azure portal. You can search for Storage Account, create a storage account by filing out the details:

Creating a storage account in Azure.

Remember that the static website feature is only available in StorageV2 version for Account kind. We are not going to go into depth of each field here, but you can leave the defaults and fill out the Subscription, Resource group(create a new one) and Storage Account name and hit the Review + Create button.

Now that we have the storage account set up, let’s get the files for the static website we want to host. I have…

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