In the previous recipe, you created and used the basic Azure management environment by downloading the key cmdlets, logging in to Azure and having a brief look around. In this recipe, you create certain key Azure assets, including a resource group, a storage account, and tags. With Azure, all Azure resources are created within a resource group.
A storage account is a fundamental building block within Azure. ALL storage you use with any Azure feature always exists within a storage account. You create a storage account within one of the Azure regions you saw in the Using PowerShell with the Azure recipe. When you create your storage account, you also specify the level of resiliency and durability provided. There are several levels of replication provided within Azure which provide for multiple copies of the data that are replicated automatically in both the local Azure data center but also in other data centers. The extra resilience, which does come at a price...
