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Isaiah Izibili
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AZURE STORAGE: QUICK START GUIDE

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Azure Storage Accounts provide a secure and scalable way to store data in the cloud. This guide walks you through the quick steps to create one using the Azure Portal.

Loging to Azure Portal

1.Create a resource group and a storage account.

Create and deploy a resource group to hold all your project resources.

In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource groups.: This will enable us to create resources group

select Resource groups

Select + Create.

Select and create resource group

Give your resource group a name. For example, storagerg.

Give resource group a name

Select a region. Use this region throughout the project.

Select a region

Select Review and create to validate the resource group.

Review and create

Select Create to deploy the resource group.

Create

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

  • In the Azure portal, search for and select Storage accounts.

Select Storage accounts

  • Select + Create.

Create Storage account

  • On the Basics tab, select your Resource group.

Select Resource group on the Basic tab

  • Provide a Storage account name. The storage account name must be unique in Azure.

Assisgn a Storage account name

  • Set the Performance to Standard.

Set performance to Standard

  • Select Review, and then Create.

Review and create storage account

  • Wait for the storage account to deploy and then Go to resource.

Creation of storage account is in progress

Storage account has been created successfully

Configure simple settings in the storage account.

The data in this storage account doesn’t require high availability or durability. A lowest cost storage solution is desired.

1.In your storage account, in the Data management section, select the Redundancy blade.

click on the Data management then to Redundancy

Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down.

Select Locally redundant

Be sure to Save your changes.

Save

Refresh the page and notice the content only exists in the primary location.

After refreshing you will notice that the zone is now in one Location

its now in one location

2. The storage account should only accept requests from secure connections.

In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.

Select the Configuration blade

Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled.

From secure transfer select Enable

3.Developers would like the storage account to use at least TLS version 1.2.

Learn more about transport layer security (TLS).
In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
Ensure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2.

Ensure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2.<br>

_4.Until the storage is needed again, disable requests to the storage account. _

In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
Ensure Allow storage account key access is Disabled.
Be sure to Save your changes.

Select configuration blade and ensure Allow storage account key access is Disabled

5.Ensure the storage account allows public access from all networks

In the Security + networking section, select the Networking blade.
Ensure Public network access is set to Enabled from all networks.
Be sure to Save your changes.

Ensure Public network access is set to Enabled from all networks.<br> Be sure to Save your changes

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