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Remediation

Before Deleting the Storage Account​

Confirm that the account is no longer required before deleting it:

  1. Verify that the Transactions and Used Capacity metrics have both remained at zero for the last 30 days.
  2. Identify the account owner and confirm that no application, infrastructure template, private endpoint, diagnostic setting, backup, disaster-recovery process, or data-retention requirement depends on the account.
  3. Check for legal holds, immutability policies, and organizational retention requirements.
  4. Export or back up any information that must be retained.

From Azure Portal​

  1. In the Azure portal, open the storage account.
  2. Select Overview.
  3. Select Delete.
  4. Enter the storage account name to confirm the deletion, then select Delete.

From Azure CLI​

Replace the information within {{}} with the appropriate values:

az storage account delete \
    --name {{storage-account-name}} \
    --resource-group {{resource-group-name}} \
    --yes