Create an Azure Storage account

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This how-to article requires the Azure PowerShell module Az version 0.7 or later. Run Get-Module -ListAvailable Az to find your current version. If you need to install or upgrade, 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. This how-to article requires that you are running the Azure CLI version 2.0.4 or later. Run az --version to find the 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 a general-purpose v2 storage account in the Azure portal, follow these steps:

1. On the Azure portal menu, select All services. In the list of resources, type Storage Accounts. As you begin typing, the list filters based on your input. Select Storage Accounts.

2. On the Storage Accounts window that appears, choose Add.

3. Select the subscription in which to create the storage account.

4. Under the Resource group field, select Create new. Enter a name for your new resource group, as shown in the following image.

   

5. Next, enter a name for your storage account. The name you choose must be unique across Azure. The name also must be between 3 and 24 characters in length, and can include numbers and lowercase letters only.

6. Select a location for your storage account, or use the default location.

7. Leave these fields set to their default values:

   Field	Value
   Deployment model	Resource Manager
   Performance	Standard
   Account kind	StorageV2 (general-purpose v2)
   Replication	Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
   Access tier	Hot

8. Select Review + Create to review your storage account settings and create the account.

9. Select Create.

For more information about types of storage accounts and other storage account settings, see Azure storage account overview. For more information on resource groups, see Azure Resource Manager overview.

First, create a new resource group with PowerShell using the New-AzResourceGroup command:

# put resource group in a variable so you can use the same group name going forward,
# without hard-coding it repeatedly
$resourceGroup = "storage-resource-group"
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
$location = "westus"

Next, create a 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 create a general-purpose v2 storage account with a different replication option, substitute the desired value in the table below for the SkuName parameter.

First, create a new resource group with Azure CLI using 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 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 create a general-purpose v2 storage account with a different replication option, substitute the desired value in the table below for the sku parameter.

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/101-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 group deployment create --resource-group $resourceGroupName --template-file "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Azure/azure-quickstart-templates/master/101-storage-account-create/azuredeploy.json"

To learn how to create templates, 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