The cool access tier offers the most cost-efficient storage pricing for storage-intensive workloads. Pay-as-you-go is only available for HDD file shares. We recommend using the provisioned v2 billing model for new HDD file share deployments. For more information on the pay-as-you-go billing...
Any blob that is moved to the Cool tier is subject to a Cool tier early deletion period of 30 days. This charge is prorated based on the data storage price of the corresponding tier, i.e. deleting an archi...
Your storage account is located in “US North Central”, and your blobs are cached and served by one of the Windows Azure CDN edge locations in Europe . Since the Windows Azure CDN edge location is not in the same location as your storage account, when the data is read from your storage...
2 As a core capability of Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), the hierarchical namespace enhances data organization and access efficiency for large amounts of data, making it ideal for analytics workloads. 3 The cool access tier offers a cost-effective solution for storing infrequently accessed data...
When you create a storage account using PowerShell, the Azure CLI, Bicep, Azure Templates, or the Azure Developer CLI, the storage account type is specified by the kind parameter (for example, StorageV2). The performance tier and redundancy configuration are specified together by the sku or ...
Azure Blob storage (hot and cool block blobs and append blobs, nondisk page blobs) Azure Files (all standard tiers: transaction optimized, hot, and cool) Azure Table storage Azure Queue storage For a list of regions that support zone-redundant storage (ZRS) for standard accounts, seeAzure re...
Archive access tier The archive tier is an offline tier for storing data that is rarely accessed. The archive access tier has the lowest storage cost. However, this tier has higher data retrieval costs with a higher latency as compared to the hot, cool, and cold tiers. Example usage scenari...
size, capacity reservations and transaction levels. Gen2 storage has additional pricing tiers of Premium, Hot, Cool and Archive, enabling customers to optimize costs. Gen1 storage only has a single pricing tier for each option but also includes somepay-as-you-goand monthly commitment storage ...
There are no volume discounts for COOL and COLD storage tiers. Conclusion At this point, we can see an interesting trend — all major cloud storage providers have significantly changed their pricing policy over the past year. Google and Microsoft have the same COOL storage tier pricing, while ...
Microsoft has all three access tiers for the Blob Storage named respectively -Hot Tier,Cool TierandArchivefor thecold tier. For details on the different storage tiers and when to use them, see our guide: Further readingAzure Blob Storage Tiers Explained ...