I am trying to access azure blob storage from on premise hadoop cluster Following are the steps that we need to execute: (Reference URL: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.7.1/hadoop-azure/index.html ) Update core-site.xml with following parameter    <property> <name>fs.azure.account.key.<stoarge-name>.blob.core.windows.net</name> <value>Access key</value> </property>     Restart the cluster Try to access azure container using following command hadoop fs -mkdir wasb://test@storage-name.blob.core.windows.net/ testDir hdfs dfs -ls wasbs://test@storagename.blob.core.windows.net/ Here, we are stuck and getting following error hadoop fs -mkdir wasb://test@storage.blob.core.windows.net/testDir 19/12/04 08:46:37 WARN impl.MetricsConfig: Cannot locate configuration: tried hadoop-metrics2-azure-file-system.properties,hadoop-metrics2.properties 19/12/04 08:46:37 INFO impl.MetricsSystemImpl: Scheduled snapshot period at 10 second(s). 19/12/04 08:46:37 INFO impl.MetricsSystemImpl: azure-file-system metrics system started mkdir: com.microsoft.windowsazure.storage.StorageException: An unknown failure occurred : Connection timed out (Connection timed out) 19/12/04 09:03:25 INFO impl.MetricsSystemImpl: Stopping azure-file-system metrics system... 19/12/04 09:03:25 INFO impl.MetricsSystemImpl: azure-file-system metrics system stopped. 19/12/04 09:03:25 INFO impl.MetricsSystemImpl: azure-file-system metrics system shutdown complete.   I am able to hit REST apis after setting proxy. I even tried setting proxy for hadoop discp command. as follow: hadoop distcp -D mapreduce.map.java.opts="$DISTCP_PROXY_OPTS" -D mapreduce.reduce.java.opts="$DISTCP_PROXY_OPTS" -update -skipcrccheck -numListstatusThreads 40 hdfs://nameservice1/WMA/test-az.csv wasb://test@pallavistorage.blob.core.windows.net/   But still facing the same issue. How to resolve this time out issue?   ... View more