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diff --git a/services/comm-services-lib/Cargo.toml b/services/comm-services-lib/Cargo.toml
--- a/services/comm-services-lib/Cargo.toml
+++ b/services/comm-services-lib/Cargo.toml
@@ -4,7 +4,14 @@
 edition = "2021"
 license = "BSD-3-Clause"
 
-# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html
+[features]
+blob-client = [
+  "dep:reqwest",
+  "dep:futures-core",
+  "dep:futures-util",
+  "dep:serde",
+  "dep:serde_json",
+]
 
 [dependencies]
 aws-config = "0.55"
@@ -12,3 +19,14 @@
 aws-types = "0.55"
 chrono = "0.4"
 derive_more = "0.99"
+tracing = "0.1"
+# blob client dependencies
+futures-core = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
+futures-util = { version = "0.3", optional = true }
+reqwest = { version = "0.11", features = [
+  "json",
+  "multipart",
+  "stream",
+], optional = true }
+serde = { version = "1.0", features = ["derive"], optional = true }
+serde_json = { version = "1.0", optional = true }
diff --git a/services/comm-services-lib/src/blob/client.rs b/services/comm-services-lib/src/blob/client.rs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/comm-services-lib/src/blob/client.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+#![allow(unused)]
+
+use derive_more::{Display, Error, From};
+use tracing::debug;
+
+// publicly re-export some reqwest types
+pub use reqwest::Error as ReqwestError;
+pub use reqwest::StatusCode;
+
+#[derive(From, Error, Debug, Display)]
+pub enum BlobServiceError {
+  /// HTTP Client errors, this includes:
+  /// - connection failures
+  /// - request errors (e.g. upload input stream)
+  #[display(...)]
+  ClientError(ReqwestError),
+  /// Invalid Blob service URL provided
+  #[display(...)]
+  URLError(#[error(ignore)] String),
+  /// Blob service returned HTTP 404
+  /// - blob or holder not found
+  #[display(...)]
+  NotFound,
+  /// Blob service returned HTTP 409
+  /// - blob or holder already exists
+  #[display(...)]
+  AlreadyExists,
+  /// Blob service returned HTTP 400
+  /// - invalid holder or blob_hash format
+  #[display(...)]
+  InvalidArguments,
+  /// Blob service returned HTTP 50x
+  #[display(...)]
+  ServerError,
+  #[display(...)]
+  UnexpectedHttpStatus(#[error(ignore)] reqwest::StatusCode),
+}
+
+/// A client interface to Blob service.
+//
+/// The `BlobServiceClient` holds a connection pool internally, so it is advised that
+/// you create one and **reuse** it, by **cloning**.
+///
+/// You should **not** wrap the `BlobServiceClient` in an `Rc` or `Arc` to **reuse** it,
+/// because it already uses an `Arc` internally.
+#[derive(Clone)]
+pub struct BlobServiceClient {
+  http_client: reqwest::Client,
+  blob_service_url: reqwest::Url,
+}
+
+impl BlobServiceClient {
+  pub fn new(blob_service_url: reqwest::Url) -> Self {
+    debug!("Creating BlobServiceClient. URL: {}", blob_service_url);
+    Self {
+      http_client: reqwest::Client::new(),
+      blob_service_url,
+    }
+  }
+}
diff --git a/services/comm-services-lib/src/blob/mod.rs b/services/comm-services-lib/src/blob/mod.rs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/services/comm-services-lib/src/blob/mod.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+#[cfg(feature = "blob-client")]
+pub mod client;
diff --git a/services/comm-services-lib/src/lib.rs b/services/comm-services-lib/src/lib.rs
--- a/services/comm-services-lib/src/lib.rs
+++ b/services/comm-services-lib/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+pub mod blob;
 pub mod database;
 pub mod tools;
diff --git a/services/feature-flags/Cargo.lock b/services/feature-flags/Cargo.lock
--- a/services/feature-flags/Cargo.lock
+++ b/services/feature-flags/Cargo.lock
@@ -732,6 +732,7 @@
  "aws-types",
  "chrono",
  "derive_more",
+ "tracing",
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