# Azure Storage Accounts

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Published 2022-12-03

This tutorial explains what is and how we can create a Storage Account in Azure.

When you want to simply persist data without using the features added by a database, you need to use Azure Storage. For this, you need to create an Azure Storage Account.

A storage account can be of 3 types:

General Purpose : primarily there are 4 types of storage in this account type: Tables, Blobs, Queues, File Storage
Blob Storage : optimized for Blob operations (Block Blobs or Page Blobs)
File shares : optimized for sharing files in a high performant environment

Info

When we are speaking about Blob files, we have 3 types of Blobs:

Block Blobs: For large objects that doesn't use random read and write operations (for pictures)
Page Blobs: Optimized for random read and write operations
Append Blobs: Optimized for append operations (for logs)

Let's create now a General Purpose Azure Storage Account.

From the Azure Portal, we go to All services -> Storage

Click on "Storage accounts".

Click on "+Create".

Choose the subscription and the resource group.

Choose the Storage account name, the region, the performance we need for the storage account and the redundancy. Click on "Next: Advanced >".

I will not modify the default values for my example. Click on "Next: Networking >".

I will not modify the default values for my example. Click on "Next: DataProtection >".

I will not modify the default values for my example. Click on "Next: Encryption >".

I will not modify the default values for my example. I will not add tags, so I can click on "Review" button and after that on "Create" button.

After a while, the account will be created:

Now, you can create Tables, Blobs, Queues, File Storage in this storage account.