Creating a storage account and configuring basic settings for security and networking in Azure

In the Azure portal, navigate to Resource groups and click create. Name your resource group, and then select a region.

To validate the resource group press review + create. To deploy the resource group press create.

Now to create and deploy a storage account you search and click on Storage accounts and click create. Just as before, select your Resource group, and give a Storage account name. Set the Performance to Standard. Select Review + Create, and finally click Create.

Once the storage account is deployed press go to resource. The next steps are to configure simple settings in the storage account. Since the data in this storage account doesn’t require high availability or durability, a lowest cost storage solution is desired. In the created storage account, in the Data management section, select Redundancy. Select Locally-redundant storage in the Redundancy drop-down and click save.

The storage account should only accept requests from secure connections. In the Settings section, select Configuration. Click Enabled on the Secure transfer required. Since the developers would like the storage account to use at least TLS version 1.2, in the Settings section, select Configuration and make sure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2. Until the storage is needed again, you can disable requests to the storage account. In the Settings section, select Configuration. Click to disabled on Allow storage account key access. Save changes.

To ensure that the storage account allows public access from all networks navigate to the Security + networking section, and select Networking. Enable Public network access from all networks. Save changes.