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Rejoice Freedom
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Provide storage for the IT department testing and training

What is Azure Storage

Azure storage is a cloud storage from Microsoft designed to store anything such as blobs and others.
Common examples of what can be stored in azure storage are your PDFS, your videos and anything sitting in a users computer

In this article, I will show you how to create a storage account for the department testing and training using the following steps

Create a resource group and a storage account.

  • In the Azure portal, search for and select Resource group

Resource group

  • Select + Create.

create

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

name of resource group

  • Select a region. Use this region throughout the project.

region

  • Select Review and create to validate the resource group

review-create

  • Select Create to deploy the resource group

create to deploy resource group

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

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

storage account

  • Select + Create

selete create

  • On the Basics **tab, select your **Resource group

name of resource group

  • Provide a Storage account name

storage account name

  • Set the Performance to Standard.

set performance to standard

  • Select Review, and then Create

review-create

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

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