Billing question on Azure Blob storage

akhil tummala7 1 Reputation point
2022-05-27T08:07:45.833+00:00

I want to check the East US cost of Azure blob storage. I checked in following link
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I am seeing the cost is more high for read and write operations as 497 INR. Is that correct or mistaken for 4.97 INR, Adding the screenshot please verify
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Let me know the correct value

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  1. Sumarigo-MSFT 47,471 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-05-27T10:40:26.9+00:00

    @akhil tummala7 Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

    It's correct! please refer to this thread which gives the detailed information Archive Storage

    Additional information: •
    Assume (1) 1GB file in West US2
    • Monthly GB cool 0.01, Archive charge $0.00099
    • Write cool .10 per 10k, archive .10 per 10k (data GB write free)
    • Read charge cold 0.01, archive 5 (per 10k)
    • Data retrieval 0.01 per GB cool, 0.02 per GB archive
    • Keep in cool for a year and read 4 times
    o 0.01 + 4x (.01 + .01/10000) = 0.140004
    • Keep in archive for 1 year and rehydrate, read in cool
    o 0.00099 * 6 (180 day min) x 4 (4 rehydrates) +
    o 4 rehydrates x (monthly archive x 6mo + archive read tx + archive gb read + hot read + dehydrate to archive write)
    o 4 (rehydrates) x (0.00099 x 6 + 5/10000 + .02 + .004/10000 + .10/10000 )
    o 4 x (.0264504) = .1058016
    • Keep in archive for 1 year and read 5 times
    o 5x (.0265404) = 0.132702
    • Keep in archive for 1 year and read 6 times
    o 6x (.0264504) = 0.1587024

    Please let us know if you have any further queries. I’m happy to assist you further.

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  2. Sumarigo-MSFT 47,471 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2022-05-31T07:11:28.943+00:00

    @akhil tummala7 You can go for Azure Data Lake Gen 2

    Write operations
    The following are considered write operations: AppendFile, CreateFilesystem, CreatePath, CreatePathFile, FlushFile, SetFileProperties, SetFilesystemProperties, RenameFile, RenamePathFile, CopyFile

    How are they billed
    • When uploading or appending data to existing files, or when reading data from a file, the operation gets chunked into 4MB pieces. You will be billed for each 4MB chunk.
    • The Copy File, Rename, Set Properties, etc. would not be charged using the “per 4 MB” rule. They would be charged as a single transaction.
    • For files < 4MB, a full transaction will be charged for each file.

    Iterative write operations

    Iterative write operations are operations performed on a folder that requires the system to iterate through all the subfolders and files in that folder to complete. Examples: RenameDirectory, RenamePath, RenamePathDir
    A hierarchical namespace allows operations like folder renames and deletes to be performed in a single atomic operation, which with a flat namespace requires a number of operations proportionate to the number of objects in the structure.

    How are they billed
    • Your example would be a rename of a directory containing 200 files. The rename would be charged as a single metadata operation (iterative writes).

    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.

    Details: Azure Storage Data Lake Gen2 Pricing | Microsoft Azure

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  3. Cenzato, Marco 0 Reputation points
    2023-01-30T08:45:58.9933333+00:00

    Hi @Sumarigo-MSFT

    can you help me in a conceptualy simple cost question?

    I have to move about 1.5 Billions of small-sized blob from one path to another in the same blob container.

    My intention is to move one blob at time (1 server-side copy op + 1 delete op).

    Counting number of transaction is simple, I suppose non bandwith costs, but what about space costs?
    I suppose the single logical operation (composed by two real ops) will take 500ms or less, so I'll have the single blob space double for a very short time.
    What about storage cost? Can I computed storage space in seconds and do appropriate calculation or is there some minimum billing time (eg 1hr) for storage costs?

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