Azure Power Shell - Create Storage Account

Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured object data, 

such as text or binary data, that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via 

HTTP or HTTPS.

You can use Blob storage to expose data publicly to the world, or to store application 

data privately.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create Azure Storage Account using Azure Power Shell. 

Using Azure Power Shell you can automate your daily basis manual and repetitive job.

Azure Blob storage is a service for storing large amounts of unstructured object data, 

such as text or binary data, that can be accessed from anywhere in the world via HTTP or 

HTTPS.

You can use Blob storage to expose data publicly to the world, or to store application data

 privately.

In this tutorial I will show you how to create Azure Storage Account using Azure Power Shell. 

Using Azure Power Shell you can automate your daily basis manual and repetitive job.

#Login to Azure Subscription Account

Login-AzureRmAccount

Open Power Shell terminal and type above command. A pop-up dialog, similar to below one, 

will appear to sign-in to your account. Enter your azure subscription account email-id 

and password to login.

#Declare all variables at one place

$location = "southeastasia"

$resourceGroup = "azurecertifications-resource-group" 

$storageAccountName = "azstorageaccount01"

#Available options are [ Standard_LRS, Standard_ZRS, Standard_GRS, Standard_RAGRS, 
#Premium_LRS ]

$skuName = "Standard_LRS"

#Available options are [ Storage, BlobStorage ]

$kind = "Storage"

#enables Storage Service encryption on the Storage Service. Only Azure Blob and 
#Azure File Services are supported.

$enableEncryptionService = "Blob"

#Boolean Type. Accept True or False only.

$enableHttpsTrafficOnly = "False" 

#Get Azure Resource Locations if you want to get whole list of available 
#locations provided by Azure.

Get-AzureRmLocation | select Location

#Create Resource Group

New-AzureRmResourceGroup -Name $resourceGroup -Location $location

#Create Azure Storage Account

New-AzureRmStorageAccount -ResourceGroupName $resourceGroup
-Name $storageAccountName -Location $location -SkuName $skuName -Kind $kind
-EnableEncryptionService $enableEncryptionService
-EnableHttpsTrafficOnly $enableHttpsTrafficOnly

All the steps which we have done here using Azure Power Shell you can do the same and manage

Azure blob storage resources using 'Azure Storage Explorer'. click on following Azure official 

link  for more details on Azure Storage Explorer.

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