Azure Function App create cannot select existing storage account

Question

I have always to create a new storage account (same resource group) when I create a function app.

The system either proposes a name or I can enter my own and but no way can I enter an already existing storage account. Of course, if I want to create a new one with the same name it does not allow it as it already exists.

Why's that? What setting determines this?

The existing storage account is "StorageV2 (general purpose v2)" and the newly created one for the func app is "Storage (general purpose v1)"

So I'd thought perhaps this is the reason but I created a new func app and again it did not let me again choose an existing storage account (for example the storage account created for the first func app) so I would have had to create a new one.

Is this by design?

Answer 1

For me, the function app location was not same as the storage account location.

Setting the same location for both started showing up existing storage accounts in the drop down.