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ABITI KELECHI TAIWO
ABITI KELECHI TAIWO

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STORAGE CREATION FOR THE IT DEPARTMENT 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.

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In your storage account, in the Data management section, select the Redundancy blade.
Select Locally-redundant storage (LRS) in the Redundancy drop-down.
Be sure to Save your changes.
Nb: The data in this storage account doesn’t require high availability or durability. A lowest cost storage solution is desired.

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In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
Ensure Secure transfer required is Enabled.
Developers would like the storage account to use at least TLS version 1.2
In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
Ensure the Minimal TLS version is set to Version 1.2.
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Until the storage is needed again, disable requests to the storage account. Learn more about disabling shared keys.
In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade.
Ensure Allow storage account key access is Disabled.
Be sure to Save your changes.

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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.

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