diff --git a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/containers.py b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/containers.py
index 8bc6cdb1d..0c5394765 100644
--- a/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/containers.py
+++ b/src/api-service/__app__/onefuzzlib/azure/containers.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import urllib.parse
 from typing import Dict, Optional, Union, cast
 
 from azure.common import AzureHttpError, AzureMissingResourceHttpError
-from azure.core.exceptions import ResourceExistsError, ResourceNotFoundError
+from azure.core.exceptions import ResourceExistsError
 from azure.storage.blob import (
     BlobClient,
     BlobSasPermissions,
@@ -74,11 +74,8 @@ def find_container(
     # increased IOP rates, this should be a slight optimization
     for account in reversed(accounts):
         client = get_blob_service(account).get_container_client(container)
-        try:
-            client.get_container_properties()
+        if client.exists():
             return client
-        except ResourceNotFoundError:
-            continue
     return None
 
 
diff --git a/src/api-service/__app__/requirements.txt b/src/api-service/__app__/requirements.txt
index 14840f648..8e1c482a8 100644
--- a/src/api-service/__app__/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/api-service/__app__/requirements.txt
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ azure-mgmt-storage~=17.0.0
 azure-mgmt-resource~=16.0.0
 azure-mgmt-subscription~=1.0.0
 azure-nspkg==3.0.2
-azure-storage-blob==12.7.0
+azure-storage-blob==12.8.0
 azure-storage-common==2.1.0
 azure-storage-queue==12.1.5
 jinja2~=2.11.3
diff --git a/src/cli/requirements.txt b/src/cli/requirements.txt
index 5f65cd3bd..91953df78 100644
--- a/src/cli/requirements.txt
+++ b/src/cli/requirements.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ dataclasses~=0.6
 pydantic~=1.7.3 --no-binary=pydantic
 memoization~=0.3.1
 msrestazure==0.6.4
-azure-storage-blob~=12.3
+azure-storage-blob~=12.8
 azure-applicationinsights==0.1.0
 tenacity==6.3.1
 docstring_parser==0.7.3