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Get Started with Azure Storage Accounts

This tutorial guides you through the process of creating and managing your first Azure Storage Account. Azure Storage offers a highly scalable, robust, and globally available cloud storage solution.

Step 1: Sign in to the Azure portal

Open your web browser and navigate to the Azure portal. Sign in with your Azure account credentials.

Step 2: Create a Resource Group

A resource group is a logical container that holds related Azure resources. It's good practice to group resources for a solution together.

  1. In the Azure portal search bar, type "Resource groups" and select it from the list.
  2. Click on + Create.
  3. On the Create a resource group page:
    • Select your Subscription.
    • Enter a Name for your resource group, e.g., myStorageResourceGroup.
    • Select a Region (e.g., East US).
  4. Click Review + create, then Create.

Step 3: Create a Storage Account

Now, let's create the storage account within the resource group you just created.

  1. In the Azure portal search bar, type "Storage accounts" and select it.
  2. Click on + Create.
  3. On the Create a storage account page:
    • Select your Subscription.
    • For Resource group, select the resource group you created earlier (myStorageResourceGroup).
    • Enter a globally unique Storage account name. This name must be 3-24 characters long and can contain lowercase letters and numbers only. For example: mystorageaccount12345.
    • Select a Region (it's often best to choose the same region as your resource group).
    • Choose a Performance tier (Standard is usually sufficient for general-purpose use).
    • Select a Redundancy option (e.g., Locally-redundant storage (LRS) for cost-effectiveness).
  4. Click Review + create. Azure will validate your settings.
  5. Once validation passes, click Create.

Step 4: Explore Your Storage Account

After the deployment is complete, you can navigate to your storage account to see its capabilities.

  1. Go to your newly created storage account.
  2. In the left-hand menu, under Data storage, you'll find different services like:
    • Containers: For blob storage.
    • File shares: For Azure Files.
    • Queues: For reliable messaging.
    • Tables: For NoSQL key-value storage.
  3. Click on Containers to create a blob container and upload a file.

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