Azure Cool Storage Pricing

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Azure cool storage pricing.

For more information please see. Azure storage reserved capacity. Azure storage reserved capacity helps you lower your data storage cost by committing to one year or three years of azure storage. The azure storage pricing page provides detailed pricing information based on account type storage capacity replication and transactions.

Some aws and azure services are similar enough for an eye ball comparison but the pricing structure complicates the view. Azure storage offers different access tiers which allow you to store blob object data in the most cost effective manner. Example use cases for cool storage include backups media content scientific data compliance and archival data. Azure blob storage uses redundancy options e g lrs zrs grs and tiering performance hot cool archive to define the service.

The data transfers pricing details provides detailed pricing information for data egress. General purpose v2 provides access to the latest azure storage features including cool and archive storage with pricing optimized for the lowest gb storage prices. Hot optimized for storing data that is accessed frequently. All prices are per month.

Today we are excited to announce the general availability of cool blob storage low cost storage for cool object data. Azure cool tier is equivalent to the amazon s3 infrequent access s3 ia storage in aws that provides a low cost high performance storage for infrequently access data. Hot cool and archive access tiers. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 tb and 1 pb sizes for 1 year and 3 year commitment duration.

These accounts provide access to data lake storage block blobs page blobs files and queues. Azure archive storage tier the azure archive storage tier as the name indicates is a low cost storage for archival data that will be rarely accessed. You can use the azure storage pricing calculator to help estimate your costs.