Microsoft Azure – Storage in Azure Cloud Shell

 In this article, we will look into what really goes on underneath the covers as we demystify storage in the Azure Cloud Shell. The first time that you interact with the Azure Cloud Shell, it’ll ask you to create an Azure storage account. It’s going to use the storage account to persist any keys or any scripts that you might need whenever you’re interacting with your resources. 

When you choose the basic settings and select only a single subscription, Cloud Shell will create 3 resources on your behalf in the supported region that’s nearest to you:

1. Resource group: cloud-shell-storage-<region>
2. Storage account: cs<uniqueGuid>
3. File share: cs-<user>-<domain>-com-<uniqueGuid>

Supported Storage Regions:

Cloud Shell machines exist in the following regions:

Area	Regions
Americas	East US, South Central US, West US
Europe	North Europe, West Europe
Asia Pacific	India Central, Southeast Asia

Storage in Azure Cloud Shell:

If we look at our research groups, we have a research group called cloud-shell-storage-westus. 

In here we could see the storage account that got created for us. Now, if we were supposed to invoke the Cloud Shell, let’s run an LS command. we’ll see that we have a cloud drive folder that’s already mounted for us.

Now, if we go into that cloud drive directory, we’ll see that we also have another folder called the cloud console. So, let’s go into that too. Inside of here, we have a file called acc_cecile.img.

This is the file that’s actually backing the Azure Cloud Shell to persist any of the information you might need.