Create a storage account in an Azure Extended Zone

In this article, you learn how to create an Azure storage account in Los Angeles Extended Zone.

Prerequisites

An Azure account with an active subscription. Create an account for free.
Access to Los Angeles Extended Zone. For more information, see Request access to an Azure Extended Zone.

In this section, you create a storage account in an Extended Zone.

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter storage. Select Storage accounts from the search results.
In the Storage accounts page, select + Create.

On the Basics tab of Create a storage account, enter, or select the following information:

Setting	Value
Project details
Subscription	Select your Azure subscription.
Resource group	Select Create new. Enter myResourceGroup in Name. Select OK.
Instance details
Storage account name	Enter a unique name.
Region	Select (US) West US and then select Deploy to an Azure Extended Zone. In Azure Extended Zones, select Los Angeles. Select the Select button.
Performance	Premium is the only available option for an Extended Zone.
Premium account type	Select Page blobs. Other available options are Block blobs and File shares.
Redundancy	Locally-redundant storage (LRS) is the only available option for an Extended Zone.

Note

Azure Extended Zones only supports premium storage accounts with locally-redundant storage (LRS) redundancy.

When no longer needed, delete the storage account and its resource group:

In the search box at the top of the portal, enter myResourceGroup. Select myResourceGroup from the search results.
Select Delete resource group.
In Delete a resource group, enter myResourceGroup, and then select Delete.
Select Delete to confirm the deletion of the resource group and all its resources.