
Microsoft Azure for example, allows an administrator to create an SMB file share inside of an Azure storage account.

In other cases, it may be possible to map a drive letter to cloud storage using nothing but native operating system capabilities. In some cases, mapping a network drive to cloud storage simply is not going to be an option without the use of a cloud storage client. Fortunately, there are a number of third-party utilities that can help with mapping storage.

Windows, for example, cannot always natively map a network drive to cloud-based object storage. One of the problems with storing file data in the cloud, however, is that the data typically cannot be accessed in the same way that users might be used to when accessing on-premise data. Organizations are now taking cloud storage seriously-to the point that many businesses now have significant amounts of data both on premises and in the cloud.
