Storage Account Access tiers

• Storage account pricing is based on two factors
  • Storage cost
  • access costs
• Access tiers providie options around
  • Storage cost
  • access costs

Types of Access Tier

• Hot:
  • This represents frequently accessed data
    • Storage cost will be high
    • Access costs will be less.
• Cool:
  • This represents infrequently accessed data
    • Storage cost will be low
    • Access cost will be high
  • Recommendations for using this tier
    • frequency: less than once in 30 days
• Archive:
  • This represents archival data
    • Storage cost is extreeemly low
    • access cost is highest
  • Recommendations for using this tier
    • frequency: less than once in 180 days
  • Blobs in Archive tier are offline, to read we need to convert this into cool or hot tier (Rehydrate)
• Lets view the access tiers in the storage account
  
  
  
  

Exercise

• Create a resource group and then
• Create a storage account with general purpose v2 and create 3 containers
  • videos
  • music
  • docs
• upload any files into these containers
• Try accessing any file in the videos container.
• Now delete any two files and try recovering
  
  
  
  
  
• This recovering is possible as azure storage accounts support soft delete.
  

Recovering a Deleted storage account.

• After deleting storage account, this recovery will work
  • if the resource group with the same name is not recreated
  • With in 14 days
• Lets delete a storage account
  
• Navigate to the storage accounts and selct restore