Azure Storage Account- Setup and Configurations

Anish Antony
14 min readJan 9, 2023

The Azure storage account is a place to store files and data. In addition to file storage Azure Storage Account supports queues and table storage. Here in this article, let's explore the azure storage account in detail.

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1. What is Azure Storage Account?

The Azure Storage Account is the place to store Azure Storage data objects, including blobs, file shares, queues, tables, and disks. The storage account needs a unique name globally. Also, it is possible to access to storage account from anywhere in the world over HTTP or HTTPS. Data in your storage account is durable and highly available, secure, and massively scalable. Next, let's see how to create a storage account.

2. How to create a Storage Account?

Azure offers different storage options, which are as follows below.

To create a Storage account, click on the Storage account option from above. This will redirect to a UI like the one below.

2.1. Basic Configuration

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Anish Antony

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