Storage Account stuck in state creating and no deletion possible

Hi Daniel Riedmann,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum,

This often happens due to :

1. Interrupted deployment during creation.
2. Backend service timeout or transient failure.
3. Resource lock or dependency mismatch

We have some below suggestions for you, you can try them.

Check Resource Locks: Sometimes, resource locks can prevent deletion. Make sure there are no locks on the storage account that could be causing this issue

You can refer the link for the same: https://dori-uw-1.kuma-moon.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/management/lock-resources?tabs=json#configure-locks

Diagnostic Insights: Use the diagnostic insights tool in Azure to check for issues with your storage account. Specifically, look for any insights that might provide additional details on what's happening during the provisioning state

Verify Activity Logs

Check if there are pending operations:

az monitor activity-log list --resource-group <RG_NAME> --resource <STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME>

Use force-delete via REST API:

call the ARM DELETE API with force:

az rest --method delete \
  --url "https://management.azure.com/subscriptions/<SUB_ID>/resourceGroups/<RG_NAME>/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/<STORAGE_ACCOUNT_NAME>?api-version=2023-01-01&force=true"

Sometimes creation & deletion may takes time, so if it says "Please retry after the storage account is fully created" kindly wait for the operation to finished & try deleting.

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Kindly let us know if you have any additional questions.

Thanks

Hi Priya ranjan Jena,

thanks for the response. I have no lock on the storage account therefore this is not the issue. Looking into the Insights of the storage account within the Azure Portal shows an Availability state 'Unknown'.

The activity log only shows my attempts to delete the storage account and all are in the Status failed.

The ARM delete API ended with the following result:

Conflict({"error":{"code":"StorageAccountInCreating","message":"Cannot delete the storage account while it is being created. Please retry after the storage account is fully created."}})

The issue already exists since last friday so I do not expect that this will somehow resolve by itself.