StorageAccountAlreadyTaken - but for how long?

Question

I created a Storage Account in one Azure subscription, I deleted the storage account, and now I am trying to create a new Storage Account in another Azure subscription with the same name, but I get the error StorageAccountAlreadyTaken.

The documentation states the following:

• The name must be globally unique
• A deleted storage account can be recovered in up to 14 days unless the name has been taken by another storage account

As I read the documentation I should pretty much immediately be able to create a storage account with the same name somewhere else. It has been three days now, and I can still not create a storage account with the same name in another Azure subscription.

What are your experiences with this, is the name really locked for 14 days?

Answer 1

It seems that between tenents one can expect 7-8 days according to this other thread, while it is almost instant within a tenent. I suspect that the roof is 14 days then.