Storage Account Pricing

• Size of Data Stored
• Data Access

Account Kind

1. General Purpose V2:
   • Recommendation over General Purpose
   • Access Tier:
     • Hot
     • Cold
   • Hot Access Tier:
     • Frequently Accessed Data
     • More charges for storage
     • Less Charges for Access
   • Cold Access Tier
     • Infrequently Accessed Data
     • Less Charges for Storage
     • More Charges for Access
   • Access Tier can be selected for
     • Container
     • Blob
     • Storage Account
2. General Purpose:
   • Same pricing for all the blobs.
3. Blob Storage:
   • Specifically for blob data.

Storage Account Performance

• Standard:

  • Speed promised is Upto.

• Premium

  • Speed promised is guaranteed.

• Storage Account Performance is shared across all the disks inside the account.

• Individual Disk Performance is possible only when your storage account has only one disk.

Exercise

• Create any Azure VM with Premium disk from storage account.