If you realize at some point of your bright Azure future you don't remove VM disks correctly (like me in JCLOUDS-1170 ) you'll probably want to do a storage account clean up. Here is, how I did it on my linux desktop using Azure CLI. As I wanted to keep some private OS images which were located in the storage account too, I moved them first into a newly created storage container. # Prerequisities installed azure-cli (I personally use the latest docker image microsoft/azure-cli with the tool) installed jq tool for parsing JSON # Set up STORAGE_ACCOUNT=" PutYourStorageAccountNameHere " STORAGE_KEY=" PutYourStorageAccountAccessKeyHere " # Move/backup OS images to a new container # create new storage container for OS image blobs azure storage container create -a $STORAGE_ACCOUNT -k "$STORAGE_KEY" os-images # linux images to be kept for IMG in eap-7-rhel-7.2 eap-7-rhel-7.2-service; do ORIG_BLOB=$(azure vm image show...