I have been trying for a couple of days to find an easy way (read:  using tools) to copy blobs in Windows Azure Storage, not by using management keys but using Shared Access Signature (SAS).

Sounds simple enough.  I remembered the AzCopy tool.  I looked around and found a blog post explaining how to use it with SAS, using the DestSAS switch.

I spent hours and I could never make it work.  For starter, AzCopy is designed to copy folders instead of individual files.  But also, I could never get the SAS to work.

After those lost hours, I turned around and look at the Storage REST API.  Turns out you simply need to do an HTTP PUT in order to write a blob into a container.  If the blob doesn’t exist, it creates it, if it exists, it updates it.  Simple?

In PowerShell:

$wc = new-object System.Net.WebClient

$wc.UploadFile(<Blob Address>, "PUT", <Local File Path>)

The Blob Address needs to be the URI containing a SAS.

Enjoy!