Auto generated Azure could-shell-storage account

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I have Azure Pay-As-You-Go subscription account having Azure Storage general purpose V1 Service where I store files. I wondered yesterday, when I found another storage account with different location which I haven't created. For details screen shot is given: enter image description here

If you have any knowledge about it or faced same behavior on Azure Storage, please guide and share your experience as I want to know what it is for and why it has been created on different location as my other services are in different resource group on Notrh Europe Location.

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You can take a look at the Activity Log to see who create the resources. – Charles Xu
When you use basic settings and select only a subscription, Cloud Shell creates three resources on your behalf in the supported region that's nearest to you, the auto-generated storage account always named as cs<uniqueGuid>, read here – Nancy Xiong
@NancyXiong..Please provide your comment as an answer. – Gaurav Mantri
Hi Sameer, please check if my edited reply could solve your question. If you have any concerns, please let me know. – Nancy Xiong
Thanks @NancyXiong it is helpful and you have clarified it. – Sameer

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please guide and share your experience as I want to know what it is for and why it has been created on different location as my other services are in different resource group on Notrh Europe Location.

When you use Azure cloud shell, on the initial start, Cloud Shell prompts you to associate a new or existing file share to persist files across sessions.

When you use basic settings and select only a subscription, Cloud Shell creates three resources on your behalf in the supported region that's nearest to you. The auto-generated storage account always names cs<uniqueGuid>, read here.

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Also, Azure creates a disk image of your $Home directory to persist all contents within the directory. The disk image is saved in your specified file share as acc_<User>.img at fileshare.storage.windows.net/fileshare/.cloudconsole/acc_<User>.img, and it automatically syncs changes.

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About the region, it depended on the region when you select the associated Azure storage account when initially start with Cloud shell. Associated Azure storage accounts must reside in the same region as the Cloud Shell machine that you're mounting them to. Its region is totally not related to your other Azure resource group. You also could run clouddrive unmount to re-select an associated storage account for the Azure file share.

To find your current region you may run env in Bash and locate the variable ACC_LOCATION. enter image description here