Storage Account Name Taken

Question

A little while ago I created two storage accounts in Azure. I deleted them probably a month ago now, but the names are still unavailable if I try to create ones with the same name.

I don't want to pay for developer support, as this strikes me as more of an issue with the platform than my implementation.

Anyone have any ideas?

Answer 1

Azure holds onto the deleted storage account names for a period, usually up to 14 days.

Storage account names are globally unique. It’s possible someone else has taken the name you were using, even if you deleted it.

You can confirm if the name is available using:

az storage account check-name --name $storageaccount

This will tell you if the name is currently being used or its state

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

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Regards,

Abiola