# Azure Files Azure File Storage API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/azure-file-storage/azure-file-storage-azure-file-storage-api/  
**Provider:** Azure Files — https://apis.io/providers/azure-file-storage/  
**Base URL:** https://{account}.file.core.windows.net  
**Documentation:** https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/file-service-rest-api

Azure Files Azure File Storage API is one of 2 APIs that [Azure Files](https://apis.io/providers/azure-file-storage/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Azure File Storage. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

The Azure Files FileREST data-plane API (version 2027-03-07, from Microsoft's azure-rest-api-specs) for operating on shares, directories and files in a storage account over HTTPS, addressed per account at {account}.file.core.windows.net.

## Operations (4)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/` | File download |
| PUT | `/` | File create |
| DELETE | `/` | File delete |
| HEAD | `/` | File get properties |

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://artifacts.apis.io/azure-file-storage/openapi/azure-file-storage-azure-file-storage-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/file-service-rest-api
- **Operations on Shares** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/operations-on-shares--file-service-
- **Operations on Files** — https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/operations-on-files

## Other Azure Files APIs (1)

- [Azure Storage Resource Provider API (File Services / Shares)](https://apis.io/apis/azure-file-storage/storage-rp-api/)

## Tags

Azure File Storage

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