azure-storage-file-share

This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK for Python. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting our public developer docs at https://learn.microsoft.com/python/azure/ or our versioned developer docs at https://azure.github.io/azure-sdk-for-python.

No known security advisories. The current version has no OSV.dev malware reports and no critical or high-severity vulnerabilities.

azure-storage-file-share has 18.3M monthly downloads and 6K GitHub stars. Version 12.26.0 supports Python 3.9+, first published in 2019.

It is actively maintained under a permissive license, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of azure-core, cryptography and isodate. It is used by 19 tracked packages, including azure-cli, azure-ai-ml and apache-airflow-providers-microsoft-azure.

GitHub topics include azure and azure-sdk.

Shared Repository

This package shares its GitHub repository (Azure/azure-sdk-for-python) with 20 other packages. Stars, forks, and other GitHub metrics reflect the entire repository.

azure-identity (224.1M) azure-core (222.1M) azure-storage-blob (136.1M) azure-common (67.4M) azure-keyvault-secrets (57.2M) azure-monitor-opentelemetry-exporter (43.0M) azure-mgmt-core (40.1M) azure-storage-queue (38.4M) azure-storage-file-datalake (36.6M) azure-batch (28.0M) +10 more

Downloads

Day

626.6K

Week

4.4M

Month

18.3M

Stars

5.6K

Forks

Issues

Version

Package Insights

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Actively Maintained

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Industry Standard

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Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage

Maintenance

100

Popularity

82

Adoption

80

Community

100

Provenance

0

How the maintenance status was determined

Last commit

0 days ago

Monthly downloads

18,325,163

• Active

Activity within 30 days

Stable

Activity within 31-180 days

Minimal

Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data

At Risk

No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads

Archived

Repository flagged as archived on GitHub

How the popularity category was determined

Monthly downloads

18,325,163

Stars

5,566

Stars per 1k downloads

0.30

• Industry Standard

> 10,000,000 monthly downloads

Hidden Gem

< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads

Community Favorite

> 5 stars per 1k downloads

Rising Star

Balanced ratio of stars to downloads

Unknown

Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data

How download momentum is calculated

Week daily avg

621,906

Month daily avg

610,839

Momentum

+1.8%

((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100

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Release Cadence

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Contributor Risk

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Python version support tiers

requires_python

>=3.9

Cutting Edge

Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer

• Modern

Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11

Legacy

Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)

Unknown

No requires_python specified or unparseable

License categories

License

MIT License

• Permissive

MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.

Copyleft

GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.

Proprietary

Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs

Unknown

No license specified, or none of the above match

How the release cadence was determined

Last release

28 days ago

Total releases

63

Releases/year

9.4

Rapid

Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year

• Regular

Last release within 365 days

Slow

Last release 366-730 days ago

Stalled

Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases

Unknown

No usable release date available

How contributor risk was determined

Contributors

3,690

Monthly downloads

18,325,163

High Load

≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads

Moderate Load

< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads

Low Load

< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads

• Balanced

Enough contributors for the package's popularity

Unknown

No contributor data available

Engagement

80

Issue Burden

149.1

per 1k stars

Discussions

0.0

per 1k stars

Fork Ratio

111.1%

contrib / forks

Stale Release

No

PR Velocity

Quiet

Weekly Downloads

Last 7 days

4,353,340

Last 30 days

18,278,349

Peak day (2026-06-29)

699,044

2026-03-26 – 2026-07-03. Enable JavaScript for the interactive chart.

GitHub Stars

Current

5,566

Earliest (2026-01-14)

5,442

Change

+124

2026-01-14 – 2026-07-05. Enable JavaScript for the interactive chart.

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 474.3K

Windows 4.3K

macOS 242

Python Versions

3.11

37.8% 175.9K

3.10

28.0% 130.3K

3.12

20.0% 93.3K

3.13

8.7% 40.3K

3.14

5.5% 25.8K

Top Countries

1.

US

376.7K

2.

NL

47.9K

3.

IE

21.3K

4.

DE

5.7K

5.

SG

4.5K

6.

HK

4.2K

7.

IN

3.1K

8.

AU

2.7K

9.

SE

2.5K

10.

GB

1.8K

Dependencies

4

1 optional dependencies

azure-core[aio]

Used By

19

GitHub Topics

Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

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Package Information

License

MIT License

First Release

October 31, 2019

Last Release

4 weeks ago

Last Commit

18 hr ago

Latest Version

12.26.0

Total Releases

63

Contributors

3,690

Open PRs

335

Archived

No

Author

Microsoft Corporation

Python Versions

3 3.9 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14

Wheels

py2 py3

Keywords

azure azure sdk

Tracking Since

January 6, 2026

Data Updated

July 5, 2026

Data Freshness

Fresh

Links

Azure/azure-sdk-for-python