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Microsoft Azure creates the storage. You can see it listed in the list of storages.

Creating a Microsoft Azure Cloud service

The Microsoft Azure Cloud Service⁠ (opens in a new tab) provides an infrastructure for the code and configuration of your project.

1. Open the Azure Management portal⁠ (opens in a new tab).
2. Click Create a resource -> Compute -> Cloud service.
3. Type a URL (name) of your new Azure cloud service.
4. Select the Azure subscription under which the Cloud service will be created.
5. Select a Resource Group for the service or create a new one.
6. Select the location of your storage. We recommend using the same location for all created services.
7. Click Create.

Microsoft Azure creates the cloud service.

Creating a Microsoft Azure SQL Server and a database

The Azure SQL Server is a virtual server you can create in the cloud. You will need the server to create databases for your cloud services.

1. Open the Azure Management portal⁠ (opens in a new tab).
2. Click Create a resource -> Databases -> SQL Database.
3. Fill out the SQL Database form.
   1. Enter the database name.
   2. Select the Azure subscription under which the database will be created.
   3. Select a Resource Group for the database or create a new one.
4. Click Server and fill out the SQL server (logical server) form to create a new Azure SQL database server.

   1. Enter the server name.

   2. Specify server admin credentials.

   3. Select the Azure subscription under which the SQL server will be created.

   4. Select a Resource Group for the server or create a new one.

   5. Select the location of your database. We recommend using the same location for all created services.

   6. Ensure that Allow Windows Azure services to access the server is selected.

      • This option adds special firewall rules to allow your deployed Kentico project to access the server and its databases.

   7. Create the Azure SQL server

5. Select a pricing tier⁠ (opens in a new tab) for the database.
6. Use the default SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS database collation.
7. Create the database.

The portal creates a new server and the associated database. If you want to manage this server locally or use a local emulator, add firewall rules for IP ranges of your development and administration machines:

Adding firewall rules for a server

1. Select the server.
2. Switch to the Firewalltab.
3. Create a new access rule for your desired IP range.

You have now configured the server to be locally accessible.

Proceed to Installing Kentico Azure projects.

• Adding firewall rules for a server