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Connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3

Let's configure the Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 connection properties to connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.

Before you begin

Before you configure the connection properties, you'll need to get information from your Azure account.
The following video shows you how to get information from your Azure account:
https://infa.media/3Tkgu60

Connection details

The following table describes the connection properties:
Property
Description
Connection Name
Name of the connection.
Each connection name must be unique within the organization. Connection names can contain alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following special characters: _ . + -,
Maximum length is 255 characters.
Description
Description of the connection. Maximum length is 4000 characters.
Type
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3
Use Secret Vault
Stores sensitive credentials for this connection in the secrets manager that is configured for your organization.
This property appears only if secrets manager is set up for your organization.
When you enable the secret vault in the connection, you can select which credentials that the Secure Agent retrieves from the secrets manager. If you don't enable this option, the credentials are stored in the repository or on a local Secure Agent, depending on how your organization is configured.
For information about how to configure and use a secrets manager, see Secrets manager configuration.
Runtime Environment
The name of the runtime environment where you want to run tasks.
Select the Informatica Cloud Hosted Agent.
Account Name
Microsoft Azure Blob Storage account name.

Authentication types

You can configure shared key authentication and shared access signature authentication types to access Microsoft Azure Blob Storage.
Select the required authentication method and then configure the authentication-specific parameters.