Azure Basics – Create Azure Storage Account

In order to start working with storage volumes in Microsoft Azure, the first thing needed is having an Azure Storage Account, which is basically a hub where the storage resources will be stored, so, in this post we will create Azure Storage Account.

To start the creation of an Azure Storage Account, the only thing to do is going to the Azure menu to create a new resource and select Storage Account, with this, a screen like this will appear on screen, where we will enter the name and the rest of the data needed, like the Resource Group where the Storage Account will be sitting, the Region, the Performance that this will require and the Redundancy, where we can choose between Local Redundancy or Geografic Redundancy.

The next settings to set will be the support for protocols liike SFTP or NFS v3, but the most important parameter to set is the Access tier of the Storage Account, where you can choose between Hot or Cool, depending on the frequency of access.

Next, we will set the Networking Connectivity, the options are enable public access, enable private access or disable either public or private access, like the following image.

In the Data Protection section I will let the default values, so the soft delete is enabled, like the screenshot.

Following to the last section, the last parameters to set are the encryption settings, in my case, the defaults are OK.

Once all of this is done, the only thing to do is hit the Create button and sit for a minute to the creation of the Storage Account. When this is created, we can start creating File Shares, Blobs, disks to attach to our Azure Virtual Machine, etc… but this are things we will talk in a later post…