Creating and configuring a storage account

Before you can upload any data or files to Azure Storage, a storage account needs to be created. This can be done using the Azure portal, PowerShell, the CLI, ARM templates, or Visual Studio.

In this demonstration, we are going to create a storage account with PowerShell:

1. First, we need to log in to the Azure account:

Connect-AzAccount

2. If necessary, select the right subscription:

Select-AzSubscription -SubscriptionId "********-****-****-****-***********"

3. Create a resource group:

New-AzResourceGroup -Name PacktPubStorageAccount -Location EastUS

4. Create a storage account. The account name should be unique, so replace this with your own account name:

New-AzStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName PacktPubStorageAccount -AccountName packtpubstorage -Location "East US" -SkuName Standard_GRS -Kind StorageV2 -AccessTier Hot