Creating and configuring storage accounts

Now that we understand more about storage accounts and what to be aware of, we 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.

Creating a storage account

For this demonstration, we will first proceed with creating a storage account using the portal and then provide the equivalent 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 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 search result that pops up, as illustrated in the following screenshot:

Figure 6.6 – Searching for Storage account in Marketplace

4. On the Create a resource blade, click Create, as illustrated in the following...