To perform this exercise, you will need a Storage account. You can use Azure PowerShell, the Azure portal, or the Azure CLI for that, depending on your expertise and what you are used to. If you want to learn what commands you should use, refer to the previous sections of this chapter.
Remember that, by default, if you do not provide the replication model value, you will end up with a Standard_RAGRS account:
$ az storage account show --name "<account-name"> --query sku.name
"Standard_RAGRS"
To change that, you will have to provide the --sku parameter, which supports the Standard_LRS, Standard_GRS, Standard_RAGRS, Standard_ZRS, Standard_RAGZRS, Standard_GZRS, Premium_LRS, and Premium_ZRS values.
Standard_RAGZRS and Standard_GZRS are new replication models that are meant to achieve even better durability of your data by replicating it geographically across zones. For...
