what is an Azure storage?
An Azure storage account is a container that holds all your Azure Storage data objects, including blobs, files, queues, and tables. It however lets you store your data online instead of on your personal computer or physical server.
Objective:
The objective of this tutorial is to guide you on step by step processes involved in creating Storage account for IT department consisting of testing and training department. The steps are as follow:
Step1: Create and deploy a resource group to hold all your project resources

- 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

- Set the Performance to Standard.

- Select Review, and then Create.

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

step 3:Configure simple settings in the storage account.
In other to configure simple settings on your storage account, follow the highlighted procedures
- 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.

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

Step 3: The storage account has to be configured in such a way that it only accepts requests from secure connections and hence follow these procedures to ensure secure connections

step 4: 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.

step 5: Until the storage is needed again, disable requests to the storage account
- In the Settings section, select the Configuration blade


Step 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.
