How to Create an Azure Storage Account: A Step by Step

Cloud storage is an essential component of modern applications , and Microsoft Azure storage provides scalable, secure, and highly available storage solutions. in this guide, I’ll walk you through how to create an Azure Storage Account -a fundamental step for managing blobs ,files, queues, and tables in Azure.

Note that An Azure Storage Account provides a unique namespace for storing your data in Azure. it supports different types of storage, including:

a] Blob Storage

b] File Storage

c] Queue Storage

d] Table Storage

Now Let’s dive into creating an Azure Storage Account.

a] Go to the Azure Portal and log in to your Azure account.

b] click on “Storage account” and click on create

c] Select your subscription [ for example., Free Trial, Pay-As-You-Go] and also select an existing group or create a new one.

d] Enter a unique Storage account name and choose a Region that has closest data center for lower latency and select your primary service.

e] select your Performance and your Redundancy and click on next.

f] On the Advanced settings which is optional but for the sake of our practice. we will enable the anonymous access on individual containers. and click on Next.

g] On the Networking part enable public access and click on Next

h] On the Encryption part, l left it at Microsoft managed Keys [MMK] and click on Next

i] Click ‘‘Review + Create’’ to validate your configurations and if everything looks good, click ‘‘Create’’

j] Deployment will take few seconds to Complete.

k] Once the Deployment is complete click on ‘‘Go To Resource’’ to have a good look on your created Storage.

Once your Storage Account is deployed, you can access it by:

Go to Storage Accounts in the Azure Portal and click on your newly created storage account to view details.