storage-quickstart-tutorial-intro-include-powershell.md

Sign in to Azure

Log in to your Azure subscription with the Login-AzureRmAccount command and follow the on-screen directions.

Login-AzureRmAccount

If you don't know which location you want to use, you can list the available locations. After the list is displayed, find the one you want to use. This example will use eastus. Store this in a variable and use the variable so you can change it in one place.

Get-AzureRmLocation | select Location 
$location = "eastus"

Create a resource group

Create an Azure resource group with New-AzureRmResourceGroup. A resource group is a logical container into which Azure resources are deployed and managed.

$resourceGroup = "myResourceGroup"
New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup -Location $location 

Create a storage account

Create a standard general-purpose storage account with LRS replication using New-AzureRmStorageAccount, then retrieve the storage account context that defines the storage account to be used. When acting on a storage account, you reference the context instead of repeatedly providing the credentials. This example creates a storage account called mystorageaccount with locally redundant storage and blob encryption enabled.

$storageAccount = New-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
  -Name "mystorageaccount" `
  -Location $location `
  -SkuName Standard_LRS `
  -Kind Storage `
  -EnableEncryptionService Blob

$ctx = $storageAccount.Context