Introduction

  • 2 minutes

Imagine you're a Microsoft Azure administrator for a film-production company that has 200 terabytes (TB) of footage archived in Azure Blob storage. The company plans to rerelease the film with some new footage that's in the archive. You've been asked to get a copy of the new material so that the producers can work on the film locally. You decide to evaluate Azure Import/Export to export the film footage from Azure Blob storage.

In this module, you learn about Azure Import/Export and the associated tools you can use to export your data.

Learning objectives

In this module, you'll:

  • Decide whether to use the Azure Import/Export service.
  • Learn the steps required to export data from Azure.

Prerequisites

  • Familiarity with Azure Storage and Azure Blob storage.