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articles/cloud-shell/persisting-shell-storage.md

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ms.date: 11/20/2019
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ms.date: 02/24/2020
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Customers should choose a primary region, unless they have a requirement that their data at rest be stored in a particular region. If they have such a requirement, a secondary storage region should be used.
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### Secondary storage regions
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If a secondary storage region is used, the associated Azure storage account resides in a different region as the Cloud Shell machine that you're mounting them to. For example, Jane can set her storage account to be located in Canada East, a secondary region, but the machine she is mounted to is still located in East US. Her data at rest is located in Canada, but it is processed in the United States.
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If a secondary storage region is used, the associated Azure storage account resides in a different region as the Cloud Shell machine that you're mounting them to. For example, Jane can set her storage account to be located in Canada East, a secondary region, but the machine she is mounted to is still located in a primary region. Her data at rest is located in Canada, but it is processed in the United States.
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> [!NOTE]
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> If a secondary region is used, file access and startup time for Cloud Shell may be slower.
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A user can run `(Get-CloudDrive | Get-AzStorageAccount).Location` in PowerShell to see the location of their File Share.
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## Restrict resource creation with an Azure resource policy
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Storage accounts that you create in Cloud Shell are tagged with `ms-resource-usage:azure-cloud-shell`. If you want to disallow users from creating storage accounts in Cloud Shell, create an [Azure resource policy for tags](../azure-policy/json-samples.md) that are triggered by this specific tag.

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