VBAZ: Create a Storage Account on Azure

Log in to Azure at https://portal.azure.com

Choose Storage accounts (if you don't see the option right away, just search for it in the search bar above)

Click +Create

On the Basics tab:

Choose the subscription and resource group (put it in the same resource group as the Veeam appliance) 

Specify the name of the account (it must be unique in Azure, must contain only lower case letters and numbers, and it must be 3-24 letters long)

Choose the region where you have your workloads

Choose Blob storage as primary service

Choose Backup and archive as primary workload

Choose GRS or LRS as redundancy option

On the Advanced tab:

Make sure that the Hot access tier is chosen. 

On the Networking tab:

You can either enable public access from all networks or you can narrow the access to certain networks and IPs. The latter is more secure.

If you choose to narrow the access:

Under Virtual networks, specify the subscription, virtual network and subnet where you have previously put the Azure appliance in.

Also add the public IP address of your VBR server.

Important: adding the IP of the VBR server is needed because it needs a connection to the Azure appliance.

On the Data protection tab:

Disable Soft-delete (if soft-delete is enabled, your backup jobs might fail).

Important: in case, you want to have immutable blob storage, make sure to enable Blob versioning! If you don't need immutability, just leave it disabled.

Click Review + create to finalize your settings and create the storage account.

Successful deployment:

Create the container where the Veeam repository will be added.

Open the newly created storage account, choose Data storage > Containers and add a new container.

Important: If you need immutability, click Enable version-level immutability support. 

When configuring the Veeam repository in the Azure appliance, you will need the name of this storage account and the access key to it.

You can get the key by typing "key" in the search field and choosing Access keys.

Here you can copy both the account name and the key.