Two azure services are required :

a. Azure Storage (blob) : for storing your items (news, documents, pictures...)

- Pricing : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/

b. Azure Search : for indexing items. 

- Pricing : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/search/

Create a new Azure search service

Connect to your azure portal with suffisent rights (account that can create new ressources on the subscription) : https://portal.azure.com/

From the home page click on the button "Create a resource"

On the search box that appears start to type "search" and select "Azure Cognitive Search

You are redirected to the product page of the service :

From there you will be able to define :

• the subscription and ressource group where the ressource will be associated
• the service name (use in manager)
• the location of the service
• the pricing tier you want to subscribe

At the end, click on Review + create to verify what you define and run the creation process.

On the bottom, click on the Create button to start the creation of the service.

Create a new blob storage

Connect to your azure portal with suffisent rights (account that can create new ressources on the subscription) : https://portal.azure.com/

From the home page click on the button "Create a resource"

On the search box that appears start to type "blob" and select "Storage account"

You are redirected to the product page of the service :

From there you will be able to define :

• the subscription and ressource group where the ressource will be associated
• the storage account name (use in manager)
• the location of the storage
• the performance option 
• the redundancy

At the end, click on Review + create to verify what you define and run the creation process.

Then, on the bottom, click on the Create button to start the creation of the service.