--- 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: '2026-07-13' 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 value the **ease of use** of Azure Storage Explorer, finding it user-friendly and well-documented for various tasks. (2 reviews) - Users appreciate the **flexibility of cloud storage** with Azure Storage Explorer, customizing resources to meet their needs. (1 reviews) - Users highlight the **cost efficiency** of Azure Storage Explorer, making it a smarter choice over on-premise services. (1 reviews) - Users value the **excellent customer support** of Azure Storage Explorer, enhancing their overall experience and satisfaction. (1 reviews) - Users value the **flexibility** of Azure Storage Explorer for experimentation in various fields like DB and AI. (1 reviews) - Free Credits (1 reviews) - Learning (1 reviews) - Scalability (1 reviews) - Security (1 reviews) - Setup Ease (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find it occasionally **complicated to start** with Azure Storage Explorer, affecting their initial experience and usability. (1 reviews) - Users find the **complexity issues** of Azure Storage Explorer make it difficult to get started effectively. (1 reviews) - Users find Azure Storage Explorer to have **high costs** despite offering many beneficial features within its price range. (1 reviews) - Users find the **account selection time-consuming** when opening items in new tabs, which hampers efficiency. (1 reviews) ## Azure Storage Explorer Reviews ### 1. Best cloud platform **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yashvi S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Microsoft Azure is the best cloud services provider. I can easily set up a virtual machine. Also, there are many options available for CPU, Zone, and RAM we can set it according to our needs. Azure also provides some free credit to users for learning which is the best thing. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** When opening anything in a new tab then we have to select an account every time it takes our time, which needs to be improved. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** We can deploy our application on the Microsoft Azure. It is provided to create a different virtual machine for different stuff. It provides different configuration options when we create any app like different OS types, CPU, RAM etc ### 2. Inoovation with Microsoft Azure cloud solutions **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Himanshu P. | Adjunct Professor, Retail, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2024 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** It provides easy implementation with scalabale infrastructure and flexibility. It can be used frequently for experimentation in DB, AI etc. It has good customer support and developer friendly ecosystm. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** It has most of the good features under expensive price range. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have automated pipelines using azure cloud services like azure data bricks, azure auto ml, azure cosmos DB and much more. It is a very useful platform for data engineering and data science. ### 3. Excellent **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Uddeshya J. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Easy to use. Documentation is quite good **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Nothing as far i know, Sometimes I feel it is complicated to start **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** To store all set of data on cloud ### 4. Experience is good so far. **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhinandan P. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Azure Storage Explorer is a powerful tool that provides an easy-to-use interface for managing Azure storage resources. It is cross-platform compatible, supports multiple Azure storage services, and provides advanced features like batch blob uploads, blob snapshots, blob tiering, and more. Additionally, it supports Azure AD authentication for secure management of your storage resources. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Azure storage resources, we have seen occasional bugs and issues with the application. These can include slow performance when working with large data sets, occasional crashes, and difficulty connecting to certain types of storage accounts **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Azure storage resources, include slow performance when working with large data sets, occasional crashes, and difficulty connecting to certain types of storage accounts. ### 5. Good about azure **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Samir s. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Azure platform one of the secure platform for orginzation and as we know it's economically and better and faster to use then on premise service **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** There is nothing to dislikes about it Really good and secure plaform **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's really solved the capital and maitanace cost of orginzation instead of using on premises cloud storage ### 6. Useful tool if don't want to access Azure Portal **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Roberto Z. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** The most useful regarding usage of Azure Storage Explorer is that I can access my storage account inside my Azure Account without having to access the last one. I can create a connection linking my storage and access data from my pc. Is it very useful if I only need to work with no other service in Azure. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** I think there are nothing bad. Maybe the only thing that could be better is opening time of application, that's at the moment very slow. No other things to add. It was thinked well. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** As said before in the previous question, this tool give me the capability to access the storage account, and the data indite it, without to need to access my Azure Account. Is it a powerful tool, is it useful to decrease time access to the Account, because save inside it the credentials to access Storage. ### 7. Easy to use desktop application for Azure Storage Management **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nishant B. | Data Scientist-I, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Easy to navigate, upload, download, and replace blobs in storage, all in one place with drop down bar. No need to navigate through the portal for different blob and adls storage objects. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Sometimes integration and authentication issues with different resource groups, but not a frequent issue. UI can be a little better, but it might be a trade-off between feel and speed. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is tedious to frequently update files in blobs thorugh portal, Quick upload, download and replacement of configuration files used by Azure Data Factory and Databricks can be easily done by Azure Storage Explorer. ### 8. Azure Storage Explorer - Easy and User Friendly tool to manage your Azure Storage Services **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Piyush K. | Founder, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Azure Storage Explorer is user-friendly. The interface is so easy that any nontechnical person can use it easily. In addition, you can manage multiple types of data from this tool. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** This software is a little slow. At least in windows 11, I faced a slowness issue. They should add more azure services in the tool. Also, more logic should be added in the Azure storage Table option to get filter data. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** This tool is helping azure admin and professionals who want to manage data in the Azure platform. Your azure admin will create an azure storage account for you and configure this account with Azure Storage Explorer. Now you can easily manage your data from this tool. In addition, you don't need to worry about the security and durability of the data. ### 9. Leverage the Power of the Azure Cloud to Grow Your Business **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kasun K. | Associate Technical Architect, .Net & Azure, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Azure provides several cloud services that help build cutting edge, cloud-native business solutions for your needs. All of these services are accessible via an easy-to-use Portal or through CLI, PowerShell for automation and APIs and SDKs for application development. Backed by excellent documentation and learning materials coupled with an extensive and passionate community of technology enthusiasts to help you create the perfect business solution. **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** As a technology enthusiast that has been working with the Azure Cloud for over 7 years, there has not been a single bad experience or frustration to talk about. **Recommendations to others considering Azure Storage Explorer:** Use the free cloud credits available to your with their extensive free trial to experience the capabilities of the Azure cloud and see how it can make an impact on your business applications. **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft Azure provides cloud services to cater to different needs when it comes to building cloud applications. From different ways to host your applications to integrating machine learning and artificial intelligence to your applications, Azure has made it super easy to add advanced technological capabilities to your applications quickly and cost-effectively. ### 10. Azure storage explorer review as user **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** MAHESH K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 20, 2023 **What do you like best about Azure Storage Explorer?** Effectively helps in managing storage in different storage in different azure data storage services **What do you dislike about Azure Storage Explorer?** Mostly file system limitations and backup mechanisms **What problems is Azure Storage Explorer solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps in managing our storage in our client azure account ## 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/azure-storage-explorer-review-4329029?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-07-15+00%3A34%3A32+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=b404200e-b8b0-4380-9e73-4cb66a0466a0&secure%5Btoken%5D=d0a51244b65e06b8e2925980a109dafb861fadc541e517669922216d62a699b2&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 (563 reviews) - [AWS Storage Gateway](https://www.g2.com/products/aws-storage-gateway/reviews) - 4.5/5.0 (59 reviews) - [ExpanDrive](https://www.g2.com/products/expandrive/reviews) - 4.0/5.0 (86 reviews)