Now that we have learned so much about accounts and storage, let's deploy a storage account within our Azure subscription with the following steps:

1. Go to the Azure portal and navigate to the All services section as shown in the following screenshot:

2. Within the next blade, search for storage as shown in the following screenshot:

3. Click on the Storage accounts option to open new blade to add a storage account to your subscription. Click on the +Add button to continue:

4. In the following blade, we will start with a basic storage configuration:
   • Select the subscription for your deployment
   • Select or create a resource group
   • Name the storage account 
   • Select the region where you want to locate the storage account 
   • Select your performance tier
   • Select your kind of storage account; in our example we will use a general purpose v2 account
   • Select the replication option 
   • Depending on your account type, you will have additional options such as the Access Tier, as shown in the following screenshot:

5. Afterward, click on the Next: Advanced > button to continue with the configuration:

6. Within the next blade, we configure additional security features, such as encryption, VNet access, or access to the namespace from Azure Data Lake Gen2:

7. After configuring advanced settings, we only need to add some more tags, for example the cost center. To do that, click the Next : Tags > button:

8. As you already know, tags are very important in Azure. They help with automation, development, cost management, and even more. So, it is very important to use those tags and optimize Azure resource management:

9. After setting the necessary tags, we only need to validate and review our configuration, and finally create the storage account. To do that, click on the Next : Review + create > button:

10. When you have passed the  validation, you can click on the Create button and the deployment of the account will start:

Microsoft has enhanced the portal experience in the Azure portal. You will now get a response showing the deployment status in the storage Overview blade. The status is shown here during deployment:

When the deployment is finished, the status will change and the portal will represent the completed deployment:

When you now go to the resource, you can create different types of storage service within that newly created storage account:

Lets create an Azure file share as an example:

1. Click on the Files section as shown in the following screenshot:

2. In the next blade, click on the + File share button: 
   

3. Now, create a name for the file share and set a quota; remember, the current limit for a share is 5 TB. Afterward, click on the Create button:

4. After the file share has been created, you will see the new share in your list of file shares: