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An Azure storage account contains all of your Azure Storage data objects: blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. The storage account provides a unique namespace for your Azure Storage data that is accessible from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Data in your Azure storage account is durable and highly available, secure, and massively scalable.
In this how-to article, you learn to create a storage account using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, Azure CLI, or an Azure Resource Manager template.
Note
This article has been updated to use the new Azure PowerShell Az module. You can still use the AzureRM module, which will continue to receive bug fixes until at least December 2020. To learn more about the new Az module and AzureRM compatibility, see Introducing the new Azure PowerShell Az module. For Az module installation instructions, see Install Azure PowerShell.
Now you are ready to create a storage account.
Every storage account must belong to an Azure resource group. A resource group is a logical container for grouping your Azure services. When you create a storage account, you have the option to either create a new resource group, or use an existing resource group. This article shows how to create a new resource group.
A general-purpose v2 storage account provides access to all of the Azure Storage services: blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. The steps outlined here create a general-purpose v2 storage account, but the steps to create any type of storage account are similar.
To create a general-purpose v2 storage account in the Azure portal, follow these steps:
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.
On the Storage Accounts window that appears, choose Add.
Select the subscription in which to create the storage account.
Under the Resource group field, select Create new. Enter a name for your new resource group, as shown in the following image.
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.
Select a location for your storage account, or use the default location.
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 |
If you plan to use Azure Data Lake Storage, choose the Advanced tab, and then set Hierarchical namespace to Enabled.
Select Review + Create to review your storage account settings and create the account.
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.
For more information about available replication options, see Storage replication options.
Deleting a storage account deletes the entire account, including all data in the account, and cannot be undone.
Alternately, you can delete the resource group, which deletes the storage account and any other resources in that resource group. For more information about deleting a resource group, see Delete resource group and resources.
Warning
It's not possible to restore a deleted storage account or retrieve any of the content that it contained before deletion. Be sure to back up anything you want to save before you delete the account. This also holds true for any resources in the account—once you delete a blob, table, queue, or file, it is permanently deleted.
If you try to delete a storage account associated with an Azure virtual machine, you may get an error about the storage account still being in use. For help troubleshooting this error, see Troubleshoot errors when you delete storage accounts.