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Quickstart: Create a storage account - Azure Storage
In this quickstart, you learn to create a storage account using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, or the Azure CLI. An Azure storage account provides a unique namespace in Microsoft Azure to store and access the data objects that you create in Azure Storage.
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Create a storage account

In this quickstart, you learn to create a storage account using the Azure portal, Azure PowerShell, or Azure CLI.

Prerequisites

If you don't have an Azure subscription, create a free account before you begin.

Portal

None.

PowerShell

This quickstart requires the Azure PowerShell module version 3.6 or later. Run Get-Module -ListAvailable AzureRM to find your current version. If you need to install or upgrade, see Install Azure PowerShell module.

Azure CLI

You can log in to Azure and run Azure CLI commands in one of two ways:

  • You can run CLI commands from within the Azure portal, in Azure Cloud Shell
  • You can install the CLI and run CLI commands locally

Use Azure Cloud Shell

Azure Cloud Shell is a free Bash shell that you can run directly within the Azure portal. It has the Azure CLI preinstalled and configured to use with your account. Click the Cloud Shell button on the menu in the upper-right of the Azure portal:

Cloud Shell

The button launches an interactive shell that you can use to run the steps in this quickstart:

Screenshot showing the Cloud Shell window in the portal

Install the CLI locally

You can also install and use the Azure CLI locally. This quickstart requires that you are running the Azure CLI version 2.0.4 or later. Run az --version to find the version. If you need to install or upgrade, see Install the Azure CLI.

Log in to Azure

Portal

Log in to the Azure portal.

PowerShell

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

Connect-AzureRmAccount

Azure CLI

To launch Azure Cloud Shell, log in to the Azure portal.

To log into your local installation of the CLI, run the login command:

az login

Create a storage account

Now you are ready to create your storage account.

Every storage account must belong to an Azure resource group. A resource group is a logical container for grouping your Azure services. When you create a storage account, you have the option to either create a new resource group, or use an existing resource group. This quickstart shows how to create a new resource group.

A general-purpose v2 storage account provides access to all of the Azure Storage services: blobs, files, queues, tables, and disks. The quickstart creates a general-purpose v2 storage account, but the steps to create any type of storage account are similar.

Portal

[!INCLUDE storage-create-account-portal-include]

PowerShell

First, create a new resource group with PowerShell using the New-AzureRmResourceGroup command:

# put resource group in a variable so you can use the same group name going forward,
# without hardcoding it repeatedly
$resourceGroup = "storage-quickstart-resource-group"
New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup -Location $location

If you're not sure which region to specify for the -Location parameter, you can retrieve a list of supported regions for your subscription with the Get-AzureRmLocation command:

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

Next, create a general-purpose v2 storage account with locally-redundant storage (LRS). Use the New-AzureRmStorageAccount command:

New-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup `
  -Name "storagequickstart" `
  -Location $location `
  -SkuName Standard_LRS `
  -Kind StorageV2

To create a general-purpose v2 storage account with zone-redundant storage (ZRS) (preview), geo-redundant storage (GRS), or read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS), substitute the desired value in the table below for the SkuName parameter.

Replication option SkuName parameter
Locally-redundant storage (LRS) Standard_LRS
Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) Standard_ZRS
Geo-redundant storage (GRS) Standard_GRS
Read-access geo-redundant storage (GRS) Standard_RAGRS

Azure CLI

First, create a new resource group with Azure CLI using the az group create command.

az group create \
    --name storage-quickstart-resource-group \
    --location westus

If you're not sure which region to specify for the --location parameter, you can retrieve a list of supported regions for your subscription with the az account list-locations command.

az account list-locations \
    --query "[].{Region:name}" \
    --out table

Next, create a general-purpose v2 storage account with locally-redundant storage. Use the az storage account create command:

az storage account create \
    --name storagequickstart \
    --resource-group storage-quickstart-resource-group \
    --location westus \
    --sku Standard_LRS \
    --kind StorageV2

To create a general-purpose v2 storage account with zone-redundant storage (ZRS Preview), geo-redundant storage (GRS), or read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS), substitute the desired value in the table below for the sku parameter.

Replication option sku parameter
Locally-redundant storage (LRS) Standard_LRS
Zone-redundant storage (ZRS) Standard_ZRS
Geo-redundant storage (GRS) Standard_GRS
Read-access geo-redundant storage (GRS) Standard_RAGRS

For more information about available replication options, see Storage replication options.

Clean up resources

If you wish to clean up the resources created by this quickstart, you can simply delete the resource group. Deleting the resource group also deletes the associated storage account, and any other resources associated with the resource group.

Portal

To remove a resource group using the Azure portal:

  1. In the Azure portal, expand the menu on the left side to open the menu of services, and choose Resource Groups to display the list of your resource groups.
  2. Locate the resource group to delete, and right-click the More button (...) on the right side of the listing.
  3. Select Delete resource group, and confirm.

PowerShell

To remove the resource group and its associated resources, including the new storage account, use the Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup command:

Remove-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup

Azure CLI

To remove the resource group and its associated resources, including the new storage account, use the az group delete command.

az group delete --name myResourceGroup

Next steps

In this quick start, you've created a general-purpose standard storage account. To learn how to upload and download blobs to and from your storage account, continue to the Blob storage quickstart.

Portal

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Work with blobs using the Azure portal

PowerShell

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Work with blobs using PowerShell

Azure CLI

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Work with blobs storage using the Azure CLI