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.

Note: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.

Note: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.

Note: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.

Note: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