Azure Archive Storage

Question 1

What is Azure Archive Storage used for?

Answer 1

Store rarely accessed data which are held for a period of 180 days.

Example: Storing historical financial records

Question 2

Are snapshots applicable to archive storage?

Answer 2

No, snapshots are not applicable to archive storage.

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Question 3

What rehydrate priorities does Azure Archive Storage support?

Answer 3

It supports 2 rehydrate priorities: High and Standard.

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Question 4

What is the rehydration time for Standard priority?

Answer 4

Standard (Default) - rehydration request may take up to 15 hours.

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Question 5

What is the rehydration time for High priority?

Answer 5

High - rehydration request may finish in under 1 hour for objects under 10 GB in size.

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Question 6

What are some use cases for Azure Archive Storage?

Answer 6

Long-term backup, secondary backup, and archival datasets.

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Question 7

What are the storage costs for Azure Archive Storage?

Answer 7

Lowest storage costs but the highest data rehydrate and access costs.

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Question 8

How can you read data in archive storage?

Answer 8

To read data in archive storage, you need to change the blob tier to hot or cold.

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