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@@ -78,24 +78,24 @@ <h1 class="post__title">How to Create an Azure Storage Account</h1>
 
 <p>OpenEDX provides a great table explaining the types of data which can be stored in Azure Storage accounts. This is useful information to keep in mind as we go through the process.</p>
 
-<p><img src="{{ &quot;/pictures/Azure/Storage-Account/00-StorageTable.png&quot; | absolute_url }}" alt="Azure Storage Table" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/thomgreene-blog-photos/azure/storageaccount/00-StorageTable.png" alt="Azure Storage Table" /></p>
 
 <p>We start on the Dashboard at <a href="https://portal.azure.com">https://portal.azure.com</a>. In the left navigation blade choose Storage Accounts.</p>
 
-<p><img src="{{ &quot;/pictures/Azure/Storage-Account/01-Dashboard.png&quot; | absolute_url }}" alt="Azure Dashboard" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/thomgreene-blog-photos/azure/storageaccount/01-Dashboard.png" alt="Azure Dashboard" /></p>
 
 <p>This brings up the Storage accounts summary screen. All created storages accounts can be managed from here. To continue click Add</p>
 
-<p><img src="{{ &quot;/pictures/Azure/Storage-Account/02-addStorageAccount.png&quot; | absolute_url }}" alt="Add Storage Account" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/thomgreene-blog-photos/azure/storageaccount/02-addStorageAccount.png" alt="Add Storage Account" /></p>
 
 <p>There is a lot to talk about in the Create storage account blade, so I am going to break it into chunks. First you must name your storage account. The name is required to be globally unique. This means that it can&rsquo;t share a name with any other storage account in existence.</p>
 
-<p><img src="{{ &quot;/pictures/Azure/Storage-Account/03-name.png&quot; | absolute_url }}" alt="Name" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/thomgreene-blog-photos/azure/storageaccount/03-name.png" alt="Name" /></p>
 
 <p>Next, we choose an account type. There are two types of storage accounts: General purpose and Blob. A general purpose storage account allows you to store virtual machine disks, files, tables, and blobs within the same account. A Blob storage account allows you to store any type of document or binary files in an unstructured object store. This data can be made available on the Internet via HTTP or HTTPS. The concept of an object store doesn&rsquo;t exactly line up with any VMware product but you can think of it in the context of Amazon&rsquo;s S3 service, OneDrive or Dropbox.
 The first choice we&rsquo;ll make in the Account kind drop down is General purpose. Afterward we will choose Blob and compare our options.</p>
 
-<p><img src="{{ &quot;/pictures/Azure/Storage-Account/04-AccountKind-GP.png&quot; | absolute_url }}" alt="General Purpose Account" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/thomgreene-blog-photos/azure/storageaccount/04-AccountKind-GP.png" alt="General Purpose Account" /></p>
 
 <p>The first choice you make for the general purpose storage account is which performance tier you prefer. Your two choices are Standard or Premium.</p>
 
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ <h1 class="post__title">How to Create an Azure Storage Account</h1>
 
 <p>Next, we will talk about Blob storage. Change the Account kind drop down to Blob and let&rsquo;s look at what changes.</p>
 
-<p><img src="{{ &quot;/pictures/Azure/Storage-Account/05-AccountKind-Blob.png&quot; | absolute_url }}" alt="Blob Account" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/thomgreene-blog-photos/azure/storageaccount/05-AccountKind-Blob.png" alt="Blob Account" /></p>
 
 <p>First, you will notice that Standard is the only performance tier option available. As I mentioned earlier, Premium performance is only available for Azure virtual machine disks. Second, there is a new option: Access tier. The two choices for the access tier are Hot and Cool. To understand the difference, it is important to know that you are charged a fee to store the data in your account and you are charged a fee every time the data is accessed.</p>
 
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ <h1 class="post__title">How to Create an Azure Storage Account</h1>
 <li>Cool Access Tier - The cool access tier is intended for data that needs to be retained in a resilient manner but is infrequently accessed. You pay a lower storage fee but pay more for access when the data needs to be retrieved.</li>
 </ul>
 
-<p><img src="{{ &quot;/pictures/Azure/Storage-Account/07-ReplicationType.png&quot; | absolute_url }}" alt="Replication Type" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/thomgreene-blog-photos/azure/storageaccount/07-ReplicationType.png" alt="Replication Type" /></p>
 
 <p>The same replication options exist on both general purpose and Blob storage accounts. Microsoft always maintains at least three copies of your data to guarantee availability during datacenter failures or system updates. If you click the drop down there are 4 options:</p>
 
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ <h1 class="post__title">How to Create an Azure Storage Account</h1>
 <p>The replication decision comes down to cost and desired availability. Azure&rsquo;s default choice is RA-GRS; The most expensive but also the most versatile. One advantage of this replication method is reporting servers could access the read-only copies of data without impacting performance on the read/write primary copy.
 At this point I went back up and made sure I had a general purpose storage account using standard tier storage and RA-GRS replication. This provides a lot of options in the future. If your use case was to run virtual machines in production, perhaps a general purpose premium tier account would be the best choice for you.</p>
 
-<p><img src="{{ &quot;/pictures/Azure/Storage-Account/06-ResourceGroup.png&quot; | absolute_url }}" alt="Resource Group" /></p>
+<p><img src="https://s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/thomgreene-blog-photos/azure/storageaccount/06-ResourceGroup.png" alt="Resource Group" /></p>
 
 <p>As we reach the bottom of the Storage account creation blade we are again prompted to create or choose a resource group. In the virtual machine creation article, we created a new resource group. I want to use that group for everything related to the Azure series I am writing so I chose to Use existing and selected it from the drop down.
 It is also interesting to note that there is a link for Automation options at the bottom of this blade as well. If you click it you can download a script which would create this storage account. This is a wonderful way to start learning Azure CLI or Azure PowerShell.