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

Answer 2

Hi Thomas Samuel,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A, thanks for posting your query.

 

The reason you can't be able to reuse the name of the deleted azure storage accounts is because azure requires each storage account have to be unique name worldwide. Even after you delete an account, the name is existing for certain time period before it become available.

The issue could be due to 2 reasons:

1. The account has been created with same name again.
2. The account deletion is still in progress at the backend or probably stuck as a result when trying to create account with same name, it lands into exception.

When naming your storage account, keep these rules in mind:

• Storage account names must be between 3 and 24 characters in length and may contain numbers and lowercase letters only.
• Your storage account name must be unique within Azure. No two storage accounts can have the same name.

If you try to deploy a new storage account with the same name as a storage account that already exists in Azure. The existing storage account name might be in your subscription or tenant, or anywhere across Azure. Storage account names must be globally unique across Azure.

Code=StorageAccountAlreadyTaken

Message=The storage account named storageckrexph7isnoc is already taken.

You can refer this article:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/troubleshooting/error-storage-account-name?tabs=bicep
You can go through the similar threads:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1657246/urgent-reuse-azure-storage-account-name-after-dele

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/1030714/i-have-deleted-the-storage-account-i-cant-create-s

 

Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further. 

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