Creating an Azure Storage account

In order to create an Azure storage account, we need to provide a Name, Deployment model, Account kind, Location, Replication policy, Performance, Secure transfer required, Subscription, and Resource group. Subscription, Location, and Resource group are the usual settings needed for all Azure resources.

The name must be unique within Azure as it's used to form an URL for your storage account. The URL is formed by adding the storage account name in front of the standard DNS suffix. For example, naming the storage account packtdemo would create the URL packtdemo.core.windows.net and therefore the storage account name must be unique.

The Deployment model allows us to choose between Resource manager and Classic ...

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