diff --git a/tests/datasets/azcopy b/tests/datasets/azcopy
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..7eb861cf378
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/datasets/azcopy
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+
+# Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+# Licensed under the MIT License.
+
+"""Basic mock-up of the azcopy CLI.
+
+Only needed until azcopy supports local <-> local transfers
+
+* https://github.com/Azure/azure-storage-azcopy/issues/2669
+"""
+
+import argparse
+import shutil
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    subparsers = parser.add_subparsers()
+    sync = subparsers.add_parser("sync")
+    sync.add_argument("source")
+    sync.add_argument("destination")
+    args, _ = parser.parse_known_args()
+    shutil.copytree(args.source, args.destination, dirs_exist_ok=True)
diff --git a/tests/datasets/test_utils.py b/tests/datasets/test_utils.py
index 018b0d9bae2..586b38243cf 100644
--- a/tests/datasets/test_utils.py
+++ b/tests/datasets/test_utils.py
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
     BoundingBox,
     DatasetNotFoundError,
     array_to_tensor,
+    azcopy,
     concat_samples,
     disambiguate_timestamp,
     download_and_extract_archive,
@@ -180,6 +181,19 @@ def test_download_and_extract_archive(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch)
     )
 
 
+def test_azcopy(tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+    source = os.path.join("tests", "data", "cyclone")
+    if shutil.which("azcopy"):
+        path = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+        monkeypatch.setenv("PATH", path, prepend=os.pathsep)
+        azcopy("sync", source, tmp_path, "--recursive=true")
+        assert os.path.exists(tmp_path / "nasa_tropical_storm_competition_test_labels")
+    else:
+        match = "azcopy is not installed and is required to download this dataset"
+        with pytest.raises(FileNotFoundError, match=match):
+            azcopy("sync", source, tmp_path, "--recursive=true")
+
+
 def test_download_radiant_mlhub_dataset(
     tmp_path: Path, monkeypatch: MonkeyPatch
 ) -> None:
diff --git a/torchgeo/datasets/utils.py b/torchgeo/datasets/utils.py
index 2ef37dfd64d..6bd02a55085 100644
--- a/torchgeo/datasets/utils.py
+++ b/torchgeo/datasets/utils.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 import gzip
 import lzma
 import os
+import subprocess
 import sys
 import tarfile
 from collections.abc import Iterable, Iterator, Sequence
@@ -220,6 +221,26 @@ def download_and_extract_archive(
     extract_archive(archive, extract_root)
 
 
+def azcopy(*args: Any, **kwargs: Any) -> None:
+    """Wrapper around ``azcopy`` command.
+
+    Args:
+        args: Arguments to pass to ``azcopy``.
+        kwargs: Keyword arguments to pass to ``subprocess.run``.
+
+    Raises:
+        FileNotFoundError: If ``azcopy`` is not installed.
+
+    .. versionadded:: 0.6
+    """
+    kwargs["check"] = True
+    try:
+        subprocess.run(("azcopy",) + args, **kwargs)
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        msg = "azcopy is not installed and is required to download this dataset"
+        raise FileNotFoundError(msg)
+
+
 def download_radiant_mlhub_dataset(
     dataset_id: str, download_root: str, api_key: str | None = None
 ) -> None: