Delete multiple storage account

Question

1. I need to delete unneeded storage accounts. Instead of adding all storage account CLI, is there any way I can delete multiple storage accounts using one CLI?
2. If I delete the storage account, does containers delete by their own?

Answer 1

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1. Once you have prepared the list/array of un-used storage accounts, you can pass them in a script and pass the account name list as the parameter to cmdlet for deleting the account.

2.Yes, once you delete the account, the associated data also gets deleted.

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Answer 2

@Shravya Shanmukha Thanks for posting your query on Microsoft Q&A.

#Delete multiple Storage accounts
1.You can delete multiple storage accounts using their resource IDs using the following command:

az storage account delete --ids /subscriptions/{SubID}/resourceGroups/{ResourceGroup}/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/{StorageAccount}

--ids

One or more resource IDs (space-delimited). It should be a complete resource ID containing all information of 'Resource Id' arguments. You should provide either --ids or other 'Resource Id' arguments.

Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/storage/account?view=azure-cli-latest#az-storage-account-delete

2.You can also delete multiple storage accounts using this script here: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/get-started-tutorial-4-delete-resources?tabs=bash#delete-multiple-azure-resources-using-a-script
This example in the link gets a list of all the Azure storage accounts in the resource group and deletes them in a for-each loop.

#Container deletion

Yes, associated containers/resources in the storage account will also get deleted. When I try to delete the storage account from Azure Portal, it shows that all dependent resources will be deleted, including all the containers.

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