Unable to delete Azure Storage Account

Question

I'm currently encountering an issue while attempting to delete an Azure storage account via the cli

az storage account delete --ids /subscriptions/00000000-0000-0000-0000-0000000000/resourceGroups/foo-rg/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/foostorageaccount --yes

The error message I receive is, (StorageAccountInCreating) Cannot delete the storage account while it is being created. Please retry after the storage account is fully created. Code: StorageAccountInCreating Message: Cannot delete the storage account while it is being created. Please retry after the storage account is fully created.

And it's been this way for about 2-days now.

I've tried deleting the resource group as it's only for test project, but I get the same error.

Has anyone encountered and resolved this before?

Answer 1

From your description, it sounds like you've encountered a rare state where a Storage Account creation process got stuck and left the resource in a "Creating" state, which prevents further actions like deletion or any other action for that matter.

Unfortunately, once a resource gets stuck in this state, there's very little that can be done with out involving the support team, I believe the only way forward to have this removed is to raise a support ticket with Azure. In the interim you can always create a new storage account with a different name and new resource group etc.