Hands-On Data Warehousing with Azure Data Factory

Creating an Azure Blob storage account

This section will describe step by step how to create an Azure Blob storage account:

1. Log in the Azure portal and go to New | Data + Storage | Storage Account. You should get the Storage account - blob, file, table, queue window, as shown in the following screenshot:

2. Clicking Create will bring up Create storage account, as shown in the following screenshot:

Fill in the properties as follows:

• • Name: adfv2book.
  • Deployment model: Resource manager.
  • Account kind: StorageV2 (general purpose v2).
  • Performance ...