AzCopy is supported in Azure Storage Explorer

AzCopy support in Azure Storage Explorer is now available in public previews. AzCopy is a popular command-line utility that provides high-performance data transfer in and out of storage accounts. The new version of AzCopy further enhances performance and reliability with a scalable design, where concurrency is extended according to the number of logical cores of the machine. In addition, it can also be improved by repeated retries.

Azure Storage Explorer provides a UI interface for various storage tasks, and now supports the use of AzCopy as the transport engine, providing the highest throughput for Azure storage transfer files. This feature is now available as a preview in Azure Storage Explorer.

Enable AzCopy for blob uploads and downloads

Open Azure Storage Explorer, click Preview, and select "Use AzCopy for Improved Blob Upload and Download"

Transmission efficiency improvement

With AzCopy enabled, how much more efficient is uploading and downloading?

The product group was tested in the environment and got the data in the table below, which shows a huge improvement in uploading files using AzCopy in Azure Storage Explorer.

The number of documents and universities

Azure Storage

Azure Storage enables AzCopy

Increase percentage

10K 100KB file

1 hour and 36 minutes

59 seconds.

98.9%

100 100MB

5 minutes 12 seconds

1 minute 35 seconds

69.5%

1 10GB file

3 minutes 41 seconds

1 minute 40 seconds

54.7%

Please note that the time of each machine may be different.