pricing for storage tier

Question

pricing estimate for different storage tier standard and premium

Answer 1

Hello @Ogbannu, Paschal (NonEmp) - Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, thank you for posting your query here!

You can start by reviewing the below 2 links:

This provides the pricing details based on the tier for capacity and operations:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/

This link is for Pricing Calculator which shall help comparing the costing between the tiers.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

Kindly let me know if you have any further queries, I’ll be happy to assist you further.

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Answer 2

Hi Ogbannu, Paschal (NonEmp),

Adding more information to above response. Storage tiers help optimize access performance and minimize costs based on your data usage patterns.

Basically, there are three types of tiering mechanism,

• Hot Tier: Ideal for most workloads. Provides immediate access to data.
• Cool Tier: Designed for cool or cold data with lower storage prices.
• Archive Tier: Intended for long-term archival storage.

Storage capacity is billed in units of the average daily amount of data stored, in gigabytes (GB), over a monthly period. For example, if you consistently used 10 GB of storage for the first half of the month and none for the second half of the month, you would be billed for your average usage of 5 GB of storage.

However, using the Cool (GPv2 accounts only) or Archive tier for less than 30 and 180 days respectively will incur an additional charge.

refer - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/access-tiers-overview for more detailed information on access tiers.

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