Azure Cool Storage Pricing

Azure storage reserved capacity.

Azure cool storage pricing. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 tb and 1 pb sizes for 1 year and 3 year commitment duration. In general any data that is seldom accessed is a perfect candidate for cool storage. Hot optimized for storing data that is accessed frequently. These accounts provide access to data lake storage block blobs page blobs files and queues.

The available access tiers include. Azure storage offers different access tiers which allow you to store blob object data in the most cost effective manner. The data transfers pricing details provides detailed pricing information for data egress. The azure storage pricing page provides detailed pricing information based on account type storage capacity replication and transactions.

19 minutes to read 15. 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. Today we are excited to announce the general availability of cool blob storage low cost storage for cool object data. Example use cases for cool storage include backups media content scientific data compliance and archival data.

Some aws and azure services are similar enough for an eye ball comparison but the pricing structure complicates the view. Azure services cost money. Azure blob storage uses redundancy options e g lrs zrs grs and tiering performance hot cool archive to define the service. Azure storage reserved capacity helps you lower your data storage cost by committing to one year or three years of azure storage.

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. For more information please see. Hot cool and archive access tiers.