Create Storage Accounts

An Azure storage account contains all Azure Storage data. To create a storage account, perform the following steps.

To create a storage account:

1. Log in to Microsoft Azure using the obtained credentials: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/account/

2. From the list of available Azure services, choose Storage accounts. The Storage accounts page appears.

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   Enter keywords (Storage accounts) in search box on the Home page to search by name.

3. Click on Create.

   • The Create a storage account page appears.

4. Enter the following information:

   Field	Description
   Subscription	This field is pre-populated with the subscription. If required, you can select the required subscription from the drop down list. This is a mandatory field
   Resource group	This field is pre-populated with the resource group. If required you can add a new resource group by clicking on Create new link. For more information, see Create Resource Groups. This is a mandatory field.
   Storage account name	Enter the unique storage account name. This is a mandatory field. The name must be unique across all existing storage account names in Azure. It must be 3 to 24 characters long, and can contain only lowercase letters and numbers.
   Region	This field is pre-populated with the region. If required you can select the desired region from the drop down list.
   Performance	Select one of the following performance: Standard— Select Standard performance for general-purpose v2 storage accounts. By default, this option will be selected. Premium— Select Premium for scenarios requiring low latency. This is a mandatory field.
   Premium storage accounts	Select one of the following premium storage accounts: Block blobs— Best for high transaction rates or low storage latency. File shares— Best for enterprise or high-performance applications that need to scale. Page blobs— Best for random read and write operations. This filed populates only when you select Performance type to Premium . This is a mandatory field.
   Redundancy	Select the required redundancy from the drop down list. This is a mandatory field.

5. After adding the above fields, click Review button.

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   Make sure that the required information has been added to all mandatory fields under all the tabs.

   

6. Click Create button.

7. Upon successful action, a newly created storage account will be listed in the Storage accounts page