A storage account is a home for the storage objects provided by Azure storage solutions, such as files, tables, and disks. Users can create one or multiple storage accounts based on their usage.

There are three types of storage accounts:

• General-purpose v2 accounts
• General-purpose v1 accounts
• Blob storage accounts

v1 is the legacy type of storage account and blob storage accounts only allow us to use blob storage. v2 accounts are the most recommended account type in Azure right now.