One of my clients recently had the need to upload tens of terabytes of data into Azure Blob Storage. This gave us the perfect opportunity to use the Azure Import Export service to get these several terabytes of data into Azure by using the Azure Import/Export Service. The Azure Import/Export Service allows you to ship hard drives to Microsoft with your data on them, which is then copied up to the Azure Blob Storage. You can then move the data around from there as needed. All this is done using the Azure Import/Export Tool which is a command line tool, which has a few quirks.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://blog.toadworld.com/2017/06/07/azure-import-export-services-notes-from-the-field