--- title: Azure Storage Explorer Reviews meta_title: 'Azure Storage Explorer Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 61 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Azure Storage Explorer works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.5 review_count: 61 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-17' parent_category: name: Storage Management url: https://www.g2.com/categories/storage-management --- # Azure Storage Explorer Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Hybrid Cloud Storage Solutions](https://www.g2.com/categories/hybrid-cloud-storage-solutions) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 61 ## About Azure Storage Explorer Azure Storage Explorer Preview is a standalone app that allows you to easily work with Azure Storage data - from any platform, anywhere. It creates and manages blobs, tables, queues, generate SAS keys, and more. ## Azure Storage Explorer Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users highlight the **ease of use** of Azure Storage Explorer, appreciating its intuitive interface and helpful documentation. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **flexibility and ease of setup** with Azure Storage Explorer, tailored to their specific cloud needs. (1 reviews) - Users value the **cost efficiency** of Azure Storage Explorer, finding it more economical and faster than on-premise solutions. (1 reviews) - Users praise the **good customer support** of Azure Storage Explorer for its responsiveness and helpfulness in resolving issues. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Azure Storage Explorer for experimentation with databases and AI applications. (1 reviews) - Free Credits (1 reviews) - Learning (1 reviews) - Scalability (1 reviews) - Security (1 reviews) - Setup Ease (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **initial setup complicated** , making it challenging to start using Azure Storage Explorer effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find it **complicated to start** with Azure Storage Explorer, which can hinder their overall experience. (1 reviews) - Users find Azure Storage Explorer to have **expensive pricing** despite its good features, impacting accessibility for some users. (1 reviews) - Users find the **repetitive account selection** when opening new tabs time-consuming and frustrating in Azure Storage Explorer. (1 reviews) ## Azure Storage Explorer Reviews ### 1. Simple tool for ad-hoc storage management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael L. | Principal System Engineer, Telecommunications, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Very useful when you just need to quickly download or upload small amount of files to Azure Storage. It works much faster than Azure portal and allows you to fully manage storage accounts regardless of it`s type. You can easily manage BLOB and File storage as well as Tables and queues. Preview features also allows you to work with NoSQL databases and data lakes. In addition to manage content of your storage accounts you can also control access by creation of shared access signatures **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Not very easy bulk operations with files, you`d better rely on powershell for this **Recommendations to others considering Azure Storage Explorer:** It is a desktop tool, so will not experience slowness of Azure portal when working with it **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage accounts management tool ### 2. Easy storage management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikolay K. | System Administrator, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Storage explorer allows management of all aspects of cloud storage with simple and user friendly UI, it works much faster than Azure portal, and allows wider range of tasks. you can upload and download files, create shared access signatures for temporary access, create file share snapshot and even get cmd string to connect the share to VM as network drive. Functionality gets more advanced with time, preview options allows connecting to DB accounts and data lake. You can put messages in queue storage and manage tables and contents using this tool **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Could not find bulk object manipulation tools, except of this everything looks good **Recommendations to others considering Azure Storage Explorer:** Storage tasks becomes much more easy and clear **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Storage management tasks ### 3. Super easy to explore Azure storage solutions and download and view files, blobs, and queues. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Farming | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 11, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** I love how you can access Azure queues almost in real time. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Some folders that you open don't update quickly when new files, blobs, or queue items are added. In fact clicking refresh doesn't always update where you're viewing. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Using Azure storage for many different aspects of web apps including log storage, data storage, and queues to act on within web apps. ### 4. Reliable Cloud Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tony F. | Sr. Documentum Administrator, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Azure cloud storage provides affordable and reliable storage offerings in addition or in conjunction with other cloud based products. We are currently using it for our SharePoint Online tenants. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** So far, I have not found anything negative about the product. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We’re using Azure storage for our SharePoint Online tenants which is replacing an OpenText Documentum solution. ### 5. Great GUI tool to react with Azure Storage Account **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 23, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Flexible and convenient to use. Instead of using command to copy/transfer file to Storage Account, I can use it just drap and drop. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** The speed is quite slow than using AZ copy to Azure Storage **Recommendations to others considering Azure Storage Explorer:** improve the speed **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can transfer files between local to Azure Storage or between Azure Storage accounts without any mistake when using PowerShell ### 6. Easy way to check your azure data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 03, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** It is constantly updated, they added recently added support to check cosmos db **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Sometimes is hard to keep the accounts updated when changing between the office and home, because of the proxy **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have to check if one of the azure storage queue is getting cleaned and this tool helps a lot ### 7. Easy and neat to navigate **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 12, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Constantly pushing updates to make it better. Love the design..makes it easy to navigate through the database **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Searching is a bit slow, but maybe that is due to the large database we have **Recommendations to others considering Azure Storage Explorer:** USE IT!!!! **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps me look in the cloud to see if everything matches what our customer has on their end, or if there's a disconnection somewhere. Helps me dig deeper on some cases. I can easily see whether or not a customer has set something up wrong by digging here. ### 8. Not the best FTP ever... **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 14, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Its great that they have hooks to azure blob storage **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Its an overly obnoxious windows product that asks for confirmations on every upload. Really wish they had an easy FTP mode like WinSCP... **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it as a simple way to upload to blob and it works well for that, but it is still a lot more clicks than I would like. ### 9. Allows me access to my Azure uploads **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Hospital & Health Care | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** I can open storage explorer to validate the files after performing a network upload **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Not intuitive to find the storage after it has been attached. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have used it to validate PST file uploads for bulk imports to Office 365. Allows me to check that all PST files have been successfully uploaded. ### 10. Fantastic tool for Azure Storage **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 02, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** By using it, I can view many Azure Storage Account in just one windows then can explorer, copy/paste contents between them. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** The speed is quite low than using Poweshell command line. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to use.Just drap and drop. No need to remember any command to copy, edit contents. ### 11. Solid technology and user friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** The confidence in the ecosystem and trust in security and transparency **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Nothing to point out at this time the system is very robust **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Internal domain characterization , active directory sync ## Azure Storage Explorer Discussions - [What do you recommend for companies considering Azure Storage Explorer for managing cloud storage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-do-you-recommend-for-companies-considering-azure-storage-explorer-for-managing-cloud-storage) - [Which tool is used for exploring the Azure storage?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-tool-is-used-for-exploring-the-azure-storage) - [Which tasks can you perform by using Azure storage explorer AZ 104?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/which-tasks-can-you-perform-by-using-azure-storage-explorer-az-104) - [What is azure Explorer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-azure-explorer) - [What is the use of Microsoft Azure storage explorer?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-the-use-of-microsoft-azure-storage-explorer) - [View Azure Storage Explorer pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/azure-storage-explorer/reviews?page=2§ion=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-08-02+13%3A25%3A50+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=e44c28e8-ba31-4d88-adb5-90528a8e64e4&secure%5Btoken%5D=f5ca82e1d3a966fa6283b930a884dd452a5211ca91f09094e2885273e899fd6f&format=llm_user) ## Azure Storage Explorer Features **Performance** - High Availability - Low Latency - High Scalability - Fast Application Deployment **Functionality** - Simplified Management - Monitoring Tool - Cost-Saving **Security** - Business Continuity - Data Security ## Top Azure Storage Explorer Alternatives - [Google Cloud Storage](https://www.g2.com/products/google-cloud-storage/reviews) - 4.6/5.0 (564 reviews) - [AWS Storage Gateway](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-storage-gateway/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (59 reviews) - [VMware vSAN](https://www.g2.com/products/vmware-vsan/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (236 reviews)