diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9f4e93d6372c86ce2f30ca6f01abc62cc8303f6a..8f3117feeb63a1b1288b63e66a5c4775a8f06bd1 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -79,4 +79,9 @@ Enabled transaction logger and slf4jlogger
 | ---  | ---   | ---         |
 | `tenantInfo.container.name` | `TenantInfo` | cosmos container name |
 | `azure.cosmosdb.database` | ex `dev-osdu-r2-db` | cosmos database name |
-| `storage_account` | ex `testStorage` | storage account name |
\ No newline at end of file
+
+## Settings to be added in application.properties to consume the BlobStore
+| name | value | description |
+| ---  | ---   | ---         |
+| `azure.blobStore.required` | `true` | - |
+| `azure.storage.account-name` | ex `testStorage` | storage account name |
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 7a97ede97037d815b4c40508839673f18d6573a5..9ea43b81bf0b2cd7da63a18e534bcb070c24c031 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
   <groupId>org.opengroup.osdu</groupId>
   <artifactId>core-lib-azure</artifactId>
   <packaging>jar</packaging>
-  <version>0.0.23</version>
+  <version>0.0.24</version>
   <name>core-lib-azure</name>
 
   <properties>
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/blobstorage/BlobServiceClientFactoryImpl.java b/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/blobstorage/BlobServiceClientFactoryImpl.java
index 72403bc6ee736018dbdb3daadead50f89255ca91..20aa323fa46799b1edb820c62c20ae7dc159dea5 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/blobstorage/BlobServiceClientFactoryImpl.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/blobstorage/BlobServiceClientFactoryImpl.java
@@ -20,12 +20,14 @@ import com.azure.storage.blob.BlobServiceClientBuilder;
 import org.opengroup.osdu.azure.di.BlobStoreConfiguration;
 import org.opengroup.osdu.common.Validators;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnProperty;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
 /**
  *  Implementation for IBlobServiceClientFactory.
  */
 @Component
+@ConditionalOnProperty(value = "azure.blobStore.required", havingValue = "true", matchIfMissing = false)
 public class BlobServiceClientFactoryImpl implements IBlobServiceClientFactory {
 
     private BlobServiceClient blobServiceClient;
diff --git a/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/blobstorage/BlobStore.java b/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/blobstorage/BlobStore.java
index fb2748f3f6fa3b38bad4f3a65cc61b3dbc433045..df5b1c04a6da4d0125f78b0f56e2e2206b8dd53a 100644
--- a/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/blobstorage/BlobStore.java
+++ b/src/main/java/org/opengroup/osdu/azure/blobstorage/BlobStore.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import com.azure.storage.blob.specialized.BlockBlobClient;
 import org.opengroup.osdu.core.common.logging.ILogger;
 import org.opengroup.osdu.core.common.model.http.AppException;
 import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
-import org.springframework.context.annotation.Lazy;
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.condition.ConditionalOnProperty;
 import org.springframework.stereotype.Component;
 
 import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ import java.util.Collections;;
  */
 
 @Component
-@Lazy
+@ConditionalOnProperty(value = "azure.blobStore.required", havingValue = "true", matchIfMissing = false)
 public class BlobStore {
 
     @Autowired