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.
Azure cool storage pricing.
Azure storage reserved capacity helps you lower your data storage cost by committing to one year or three years of azure storage.
Some aws and azure services are similar enough for an eye ball comparison but the pricing structure complicates the view.
The azure storage pricing page provides detailed pricing information based on account type storage capacity replication and transactions.
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The data transfers pricing details provides detailed pricing information for data egress.
Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 tb and 1 pb sizes for 1 year and 3 year commitment duration.
Azure blob storage uses redundancy options e g lrs zrs grs and tiering performance hot cool archive to define the service.
These accounts provide access to data lake storage block blobs page blobs files and queues.
Hot cool and archive access tiers.
Today we are excited to announce the general availability of cool blob storage low cost storage for cool object data.
Azure services cost money.
Azure storage reserved capacity.
The available access tiers include.
Example use cases for cool storage include backups media content scientific data compliance and archival data.
Hot optimized for storing data that is accessed frequently.
In general any data that is seldom accessed is a perfect candidate for cool storage.
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.
All prices are per month.
You can use the azure storage pricing calculator to help estimate your costs.