Create Azure Storage Account
decide how many storage accounts you need for your project
determine the appropriate settings for each storage account
create a storage account using the azure portal
What is Azure Storage?
Azure provides many ways to store your data, including multiple database options like Azure SQL database, Azure Cosmos DB and Azure Table Storage. Azure offers multiple ways to store and send messages, such as Azure Queues and Event Hubs. You can even store loose files using services like Azure Files and Azure Blobs.
Azure Storage consists of Azure blobs, Azure Files, Azure Queues, Azure Tables
What is Storage account?
A container that groups a set of azure storage services together. Only data services from azure storage can be included in a storage account.
The settings you specify when you create the account, or any changes that you make after creating, apply to all services in the storage account.
Other azure data services, such as Azure SQL, Azure Cosmos DB are managed as independent azure resources and cant be included in a storage account.
Storage Account settings
A storage account defines the following settings
Subscription - sub thats billed for the services in the account
Location - datacenter that stores the services in the account
Performance - determines the data services you can have in your storage and the type of hardware disks used to store the data.
Replication
Access tier
Secure transfer required
Virtual networks - security feature that allows an inbound access requests only from the virtual networks you specify.
Storage account settings
The three settings that apply to the account itself
Name
Deployment model
is the system azure use to organize your resources. The model defines the API that you use to create, configure, manage those resources.
Two deployment models
Resource Manager - current model that uses the azure resource manager API
Classic - legacy offering that uses the classic deployment model
The key feature difference between the two models is their support for grouping. The resource manager model adds the concept of a resource group, which is not available in the classic model. Resource group lets you deploy and manage a collection of resources as a single unit.
Account kind
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