# Azure Artifact Referencing

**URL:** <https://community.wandb.ai/t/azure-artifact-referencing/2376>\
**Category:** W&B Help\
**Created:** [May 6, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/azure-artifact-referencing/2376 "2022-05-06T19:10:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![hassanw65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hassanw65](https://community.wandb.ai/u/hassanw65)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 7:10pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/azure-artifact-referencing/2376/1 "2022-05-06T19:10:51Z")

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Following doesn’t work for us. Is their any way to solve the following problems for Artifact reference with **Azure Blob Storage** :

1. How should we pass credentials to wandb ? As for Amazon S3 and GCS the priority and env variables are mentioned in docs.

2. It was recommended that by passing **az://** as prefix will work similar to whats done s3 bucket and gcs. However I didn’t see any storage handler in wandb code for azure. I wonder how would it work just by passing a prefix ? Furthermore, unlike boto for s3 and google-cloud-storage sdk for gcs. I don’t see any requirement of azure-storage in requirements.txt. Is their any Microsoft Azure Storage SDK for Python somewhere in code that I can not find ??

3. Although it doesn’t make any sense still I gave it a try, and as expected. Following are the results.

```auto
run = wandb.init(project="Dummy_Training", job_type="upload")
bucket = 'az://azurestorage.blob.core.windows.net/container_name'
dataset_at = wandb.Artifact('sample',type="raw_data")

dataset_at.add_reference(bucket)
run.log_artifact(dataset_at)
run.finish()

```

And I get the following Error

 ![6853D58492F2404D8EAC586087E55373](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/d74321689bbd477953afb77691a5b5ee70505085.jpeg)

1. Do I need to pass something in name parameter? What would be the entry name for azure?  
Seems like az:// is defiantly not in your known handlers

**Is their any way for Azure Artifact Referencing (azure blob storage) to work. And please let me know if their is any thing that I am missing. Any example for the resolution of this problem will be much appreciated.**

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![hassanw65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hassanw65](https://community.wandb.ai/u/hassanw65)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 7:13pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/azure-artifact-referencing/2376/2 "2022-05-06T19:13:39Z")

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And I also didn’t see any storage handler in wandb code for azure.  
 ![C1BCD638F8B84BF0A7F85024A39F405A](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/518cfc9b6ac1a236c9bf6f8214201bfb3c9ea0ce.png)

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**Author:** ![hassanw65](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hassanw65](https://community.wandb.ai/u/hassanw65)\
**Post date:** [May 6, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/azure-artifact-referencing/2376/3 "2022-05-06T19:14:39Z")

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And I also didnt see a way to pass azure credential to wandb in the artifact referencing document.  
 ![F9B220A31E5648CCA496FEE206CDCF27](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/9418fe0d93a9475617d384530096373e8e15cfa9.png)

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**Author:** ![sydholl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb8c5e/32.png) [@sydholl](https://community.wandb.ai/u/sydholl)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/azure-artifact-referencing/2376/4 "2022-05-09T17:02:44Z")

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Hi @hassanw65. Unfortunately Azure reference artifacts aren’t supported currently. We have a ticket created with our engineering team and increased the priority for it. I will let you know when there are updates.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/366b649231631dbab896843020da0056074ac79d.png) [@system](https://community.wandb.ai/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2022, 5:03pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/azure-artifact-referencing/2376/5 "2022-07-08T17:03:14Z")

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