Microsoft Azure: Create a Storage Account

Microsoft provided 3 kinds of storage account plan and pricing of the plan

• StorageV2 (general purpose v2)
• The current offering that supports all storage types and all of the latest features
• Storage (general purpose v1)
• a legacy kind that supports all storage types, but may not support all features
• Blob storage
• a legacy kind that allows only block blobs and append blobs

Create Azure Storage account

Step 1: Navigate the Azure Portal website and Sign up with a new account or if you have an account already, you can log in with your existing account.

Step 2: On the Azure portal menu, or from the Home page, select Create a resource, like below



Step 3: Select Storage or search for and select Storage account, after that the Storage account pane will appear.


The create storage account pane will open and fill the basic info details like below and click on Create

Storage account name

The storage name must be 3 to 24 characters long and can contain only lowercase letters and numbers and the storage name should be unique and the same used for public URL.

Location

Select a location near to your client location or application lunch location



After clicking on Review + create to review the settings. This will do a quick validation of your options to make sure all the required fields are selected and if any issue will highlight here



After validation passes, select Create for creating a storage account, it may take a few seconds and will get a confirmation message.

Summary

We have created a storage account with settings driven by your business requirements. For example, In this demo, they created an East US datacenter because customers were primarily located in the same location.