Creating and Configuring Storage Accounts

You now understand storage accounts and have learned of their many configurations, such as storage types, access tiers, and redundancy options. In the following exercise, you are going to create a storage account in Azure. A storage account needs to be in place before you can upload any data or files to Azure. Complete the activities that follow.

Creating a storage account

For this demonstration, you will first proceed with creating a storage account using the portal. In the exercise that follows this, you will create the equivalent resources’ PowerShell code to create this using the Az module. Proceed as follows:

1. Sign in to the Azure portal at https://portal.azure.com.
2. Open the AZ104-StorageAccounts resource group you will be using for this exercise, click Overview on the left menu, and then click + Create.
3. Enter storage account in the search bar and click the Storage account block result that pops up showing Microsoft...