Create Azure Storage Account on Azure Portal

Introduction

Azure cloud storage is a scalable and versatile solution offered by Microsoft Azure that provides durable and secured storage. Here in this blog post, we will explore the process to create a storage account in azure portal.

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Getting Started

On my previous posts, we explored to upload images and download images using azure portal also explored to post images using .net. here in this post. In this post we will discuss the step-by-step process to create an azure account. Note that here we are not going to discuss about the azure storage account pricing.

Azure cloud storage account provides cloud storage facilities which contain all your data objects: blobs, files, queues, and tables is called Azure Storage Account. The cloud Azure storage account provides a unique namespace for your Data Storage that is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. The data storage is durable and highly available, secure, and massively scalable.

Azure Storage Account Types

1. Standard general-purpose v2: Standard storage account type for blobs, file shares, queues, and tables. Recommended for most scenarios using Azure Storage. If you want support for network file system (NFS) in Azure Files, use the premium file shares account type.

2. Premium block blobs3: Premium storage account type for block blobs and append blobs. Recommended for scenarios with high transaction rates or that use smaller objects or require consistently low storage latency. 

3. Premium block blobs3: Premium storage account type for block blobs and append blobs. Recommended for scenarios with high transaction rates or that use smaller objects or require consistently low storage latency. 

4. Premium page blobs3: Premium storage account type for page blobs only.

As an IT professional or someone who is interested in cloud storage and wants to go with Microsoft Azure, should know the procedure of setup Azure Storage Account. Don’t worry, the blow steps will help you to create an account and leverage the storage account.

Steps to create Azure Storage Account

The following steps will help you to create a storage account in azure, sure you have access to the storage account. Connect to your administrator If you don’t have access.

1. Click here to open the Azure Portal on browser.

2. Login into Azure Portal with your provided credentials, make sure that you have access to Azure containers.

3. Click on the Storage Accounts, see the below image….

   
   
   

4. On the Storage accounts, click on Create to create a new Storage account.

5. On the Create a storage account page, you will get below option which is categorized into tabs.

   1. Basic: Provide the essential information for your storage account.

   2. Advanced: Can configure additional options and modify default settings for your new storage account.

   3. Networking: Can configure network connectivity and routing preference settings for your new storage account.

   4. Data Protection: Can configure data protection options for blob data in your new storage account can be configured after account creation.

   5. Encryption: Can configure options that relate to how your data is encrypted when it is persisted to the cloud. Some of these options can be configured only when you create the storage account.

   6. Tags: Can specify Resource Manager tags to help organize your Azure resources.

   7. Review: When you navigate to the Review + create tab, Azure runs validation on the storage account settings that you have chosen. If validation passes, you can proceed to create the storage account.

6. Here we discuss about the Basic option only as the post will become a log discussion if we complete all the tabs and will cover it in another post, but don’t worry after you complete the Basics tab, you can choose to further customize your new storage account by setting options on the other tabs, or you can select Review + create to accept the default options and proceed to validate and create the account.

7. Select the relevant subscription and the resource group. Provide a name for the Storage Account, and select the Region, Relevant Performance, and Redundancy. Then click on the Review button.

8. Click on Create to deploy the Storage account.

9. You will see that your storage account has been successfully deployed.

10. Click the Go to Resource button to check the storage account details.

Summary

In this blog post Create Azure Storage Account on Azure Portal, we learn about azure cloud storage account, types of storage account in azure and how to create an azure storage account. I hope you enjoyed it and this post is helpful to you.

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