Creating a resource group and a storage account on Azure for beginners.

What is a Resource Group?
A Resource Group in Microsoft Azure is a container that holds related resources for an Azure solution. These resources could include virtual machines, storage accounts, databases, web apps, and more.

Uses of a Resource Groups.
✅ 1. Organizing Azure Resources
Resource groups help you logically group related Azure resources (like VMs, storage accounts, databases) so they’re easier to manage based on project, environment (dev/test/prod), department, or application.

✅ 2. Simplified Resource Management
You can manage and monitor all resources in a resource group collectively:
Deploy or delete resources together
Apply tags for cost tracking or resource categorization
Use Azure Policy to enforce rules on all resources in the group

✅ 3. Access Control and Security
Resource groups support Role-Based Access Control (RBAC):
Grant specific users or groups permission to only one resource group (instead of the whole subscription)
Example: Give a developer team access only to their project’s resource group

✅ 4. Cost Tracking and Budgeting
By grouping resources by project, team, or department, you can:
Track costs more easily
Assign budgets or spending alerts
Use tags to identify resource ownership and purpose

✅ 5. Automation and Deployment
You can use tools like:
ARM templates, Bicep, or Terraform to deploy multiple resources to a resource group at once
This ensures consistent, repeatable infrastructure deployments

✅ 6. Resource Lifecycle Management
Deleting a resource group deletes all resources inside it. This is useful for:
Cleaning up after temporary environments (e.g., dev/test)
Avoiding “resource sprawl” or leftover orphaned services

✅ 7. Monitoring and Alerts
You can apply:
Alerts
Diagnostics settings
Log analytics
to all resources within a group for centralized monitoring.

What is a storage account
This is the actual Azure service used to store data. A Storage Account is a top-level container that provides:
Blobs (object storage)
Files (file shares)
Queues (messaging)
Tables (NoSQL storage)
Disks (for VMs)
✅ Example: mystorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net

Simple steps to create a resource group and a storage account on Azure

STEP 1

• In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource groups. Select Create.
• Give your resource group a name. For example, storagerg.
• Select a region. Use this region throughout the project.
• Select **Review and create **to validate the resource group.
• Select Create to deploy the resource group.

STEP 2
Create and deploy a storage account to support testing and training.

• In the Azure portal, search for and select Storage accounts. Select + Create.
• On the Basics tab, select your Resource group.
• Provide a Storage account name. The storage account name must be unique in Azure.
• Set the Performance to Standard.
• Select Review, and then Create.
• Wait for the storage account to deploy and then Go to resource.