Create a storage account

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To create an Azure storage account with PowerShell, make sure you have installed the Az PowerShell module, version 0.7 or later. For more information, see Introducing the Azure PowerShell Az module.

To find your current version, run the following command:

Get-InstalledModule -Name "Az"

To install or upgrade Azure PowerShell, see Install Azure PowerShell module.

You can sign in to Azure and run Azure CLI commands in one of two ways:

• You can run CLI commands from within the Azure portal, in Azure Cloud Shell.
• You can install the CLI and run CLI commands locally.

Use Azure Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell is a free Bash shell that you can run directly within the Azure portal. The Azure CLI is pre-installed and configured to use with your account. Click the Cloud Shell button on the menu in the upper-right section of the Azure portal:

The button launches an interactive shell that you can use to run the steps outlined in this how-to article:

Install the CLI locally

You can also install and use the Azure CLI locally. The examples in this article require Azure CLI version 2.0.4 or later. Run az --version to find your installed version. If you need to install or upgrade, see Install the Azure CLI.

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Sign in to the Azure portal.

Sign in to your Azure subscription with the Connect-AzAccount command and follow the on-screen directions to authenticate.

Connect-AzAccount

To launch Azure Cloud Shell, sign in to the Azure portal.

To log into your local installation of the CLI, run the az login command:

az login

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To create an Azure storage account with the Azure portal, follow these steps:

1. From the left portal menu, select Storage accounts to display a list of your storage accounts.
2. On the Storage accounts page, select Create.

Options for your new storage account are organized into tabs in the Create a storage account page. The following sections describe each of the tabs and their options.

Basics tab

On the Basics tab, provide the essential information for your storage account. 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.

The following table describes the fields on the Basics tab.

The following image shows a standard configuration for a new storage account.

Advanced tab

On the Advanced tab, you can configure additional options and modify default settings for your new storage account. Some of these options can also be configured after the storage account is created, while others must be configured at the time of creation.

The following table describes the fields on the Advanced tab.

Networking tab

On the Networking tab, you can configure network connectivity and routing preference settings for your new storage account. These options can also be configured after the storage account is created.

The following table describes the fields on the Networking tab.

Data protection tab

On the Data protection tab, you can configure data protection options for blob data in your new storage account. These options can also be configured after the storage account is created. For an overview of data protection options in Azure Storage, see Data protection overview.

The following table describes the fields on the Data protection tab.

Tags tab

On the Tags tab, you can specify Resource Manager tags to help organize your Azure resources. For more information, see Tag resources, resource groups, and subscriptions for logical organization.

Review + create tab

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.

If validation fails, then the portal indicates which settings need to be modified.

To create a general-purpose v2 storage account with PowerShell, first create a new resource group by calling the New-AzResourceGroup command:

$resourceGroup = "<resource-group>"
$location = "<location>"
New-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup -Location $location

If you're not sure which region to specify for the -Location parameter, you can retrieve a list of supported regions for your subscription with the Get-AzLocation command:

Get-AzLocation | select Location

Next, create a standard general-purpose v2 storage account with read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) by using the New-AzStorageAccount command. Remember that the name of your storage account must be unique across Azure, so replace the placeholder value in brackets with your own unique value:

New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
  -Name <account-name> `
  -Location $location `
  -SkuName Standard_RAGRS `
  -Kind StorageV2

To enable a hierarchical namespace for the storage account to use Azure Data Lake Storage, set the EnableHierarchicalNamespace' parameter to $True` on the call to the New-AzStorageAccount command.

The following table shows which values to use for the SkuName and Kind parameters to create a particular type of storage account with the desired redundancy configuration.

To create a general-purpose v2 storage account with Azure CLI, first create a new resource group by calling the az group create command.

az group create \
  --name storage-resource-group \
  --location westus

If you're not sure which region to specify for the --location parameter, you can retrieve a list of supported regions for your subscription with the az account list-locations command.

az account list-locations \
  --query "[].{Region:name}" \
  --out table

Next, create a standard general-purpose v2 storage account with read-access geo-redundant storage by using the az storage account create command. Remember that the name of your storage account must be unique across Azure, so replace the placeholder value in brackets with your own unique value:

az storage account create \
  --name <account-name> \
  --resource-group storage-resource-group \
  --location westus \
  --sku Standard_RAGRS \
  --kind StorageV2

To enable a hierarchical namespace for the storage account to use Azure Data Lake Storage, set the enable-hierarchical-namespace parameter to true on the call to the az storage account create command. Creating a hierarchical namespace requires Azure CLI version 2.0.79 or later.

The following table shows which values to use for the sku and kind parameters to create a particular type of storage account with the desired redundancy configuration.

You can use either Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI to deploy a Resource Manager template to create a storage account. The template used in this how-to article is from Azure Resource Manager quickstart templates. To run the scripts, select Try it to open the Azure Cloud Shell. To paste the script, right-click the shell, and then select Paste.

$resourceGroupName = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the Resource Group name"
$location = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the location (i.e. centralus)"

New-AzResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroupName -Location "$location"
New-AzResourceGroupDeployment -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroupName -TemplateUri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/quickstarts/microsoft.storage/storage-account-create/azuredeploy.json"

echo "Enter the Resource Group name:" &&
read resourceGroupName &&
echo "Enter the location (i.e. centralus):" &&
read location &&
az group create --name $resourceGroupName --location "$location" &&
az deployment group create --resource-group $resourceGroupName --template-uri "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/quickstarts/microsoft.storage/storage-account-create/azuredeploy.json"

To learn how to modify this template or create new ones, see:

• Azure Resource Manager documentation.
• Storage account template reference.
• Additional storage account template samples.

1. Navigate to the storage account in the Azure portal.
2. Click Delete.

To delete the storage account, use the Remove-AzStorageAccount command:

Remove-AzStorageAccount -Name <storage-account> -ResourceGroupName <resource-group>

To delete the storage account, use the az storage account delete command:

az storage account delete --name <storage-account> --resource-group <resource-group>

To delete the storage account, use either Azure PowerShell or Azure CLI.

$storageResourceGroupName = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the resource group name"
$storageAccountName = Read-Host -Prompt "Enter the storage account name"
Remove-AzStorageAccount -Name $storageAccountName -ResourceGroupName $storageResourceGroupName

echo "Enter the resource group name:" &&
read resourceGroupName &&
echo "Enter the storage account name:" &&
read storageAccountName &&
az storage account delete --name storageAccountName --resource-group resourceGroupName