You can use Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 Connector to connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage using shared key authentication or shared access signature authentication.
Before you configure authentication, create a storage account to use with Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and create a blob container in the storage account. For more information on how to create a storage account and a blob container, see the Informatica How-To Library article, Prerequisites to create a Microsoft Azure Blob Storage V3 connection.
Before you configure the connection properties, you also need to keep the authentication details handy based on the authentication type that you want to use.
Shared Key authentication
To connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage using shared key authentication, you need the storage account name and account key.
1Open the storage account.
2Under Security + Networking, click Access keys.
3Click Show keys.
4Make a note of the storage account name and account key. You can use key1 or key2.
Shared access signature authentication
To connect to Microsoft Azure Blob Storage using shared access signature, you need to configure the minimum permissions for shared access signature authentication and generate the SAS token in the Azure portal.
You can generate the SAS token for the storage account or for the container.
•To generate the SAS token for the storage account, on the Azure portal, go to Security + Networking, and click Shared access signature.
The following image shows the minimum permissions required for shared access signature authentication:
•To generate the SAS token for the Blob container, go to Settings of the container, and click Shared access tokens.
The following image shows the minimum permissions required for shared access signature authentication:
Note: If you use the User delegation key signing method, ensure that you have the Storage Blob Data Owner role for the container or the storage account.
