
You can pay for Azure Blob Storage charges with your Azure Prepayment (previously called monetary commitment) credit. Using Azure Prepayment with Azure Blob Storage REST calls that use the Azure Data Lake Store REST APIĪpplications that use Data Lake Storage Gen2 APIs from an Azure Storage client library.
Transaction cost driver#
Workloads that use the Azure Blob File System driver or ABFS driver.

Requests to the Data Lake Storage Gen2 endpoint can originate from any of the following sources: Transaction prices that appear in the Block blob pricing page apply only to requests that use the Blob Storage endpoint (For example: The listed prices do not apply to requests that use the Data Lake Storage Gen2 endpoint (For example: For the transaction price of those requests, open the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 pricing page and select the Flat Namespace option. To learn more about storage account endpoints, see Storage account endpoints. Flat namespace accounts and transaction pricingĬlients can make a request by using either the Blob Storage endpoint or the Data Lake Storage endpoint of your account. Prices differ based on other settings in your account such as data redundancy options, access tier and performance tier. In the pricing page, apply the appropriate redundancy, region, and currency filters. If you haven't enabled this feature, see the Block blob pricing page. If you've enabled the hierarchical namespace feature on your account, see the Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2 pricing page. To find unit prices, open the correct pricing page. Therefore, to obtain the best approximation of your costs in a given month, make sure to divide the monthly cost by the number of days that occur in that month. The number of days in any given month varies. You can use a similar approach to estimating the cost of encryption scopes that are in use for less than a month. For data and metadata stored for less than a month, you can estimate the impact on your monthly bill by calculating the cost of each GB per day. There's a separate line item for each meter.ĭata storage and metadata are billed per GB on a monthly basis.

Your bill or invoice shows a section for all Azure Blob Storage costs. See the Bandwidth pricing.Īt the end of your billing cycle, the charges for each meter are summed. 2 Applies only if you enable the feature.ĭata traffic might also incur networking costs. When you create or use Blob Storage resources, you'll be charged for the following meters: Meterġ Applies only to accounts that have a hierarchical namespace. How you're charged for Azure Blob Storage It's important to understand that there could be other additional infrastructure costs that might accrue.
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Understand the full billing model for Azure Blob StorageĪzure Blob Storage runs on Azure infrastructure that accrues costs when you deploy new resources. Modify the remaining options to see their affect on your estimate. Use the links in the More Info section to learn more about what each option means and how these options affect the price of storage-related operations. That estimate appears in the upper corner as well as the bottom of the estimate.Īs you change the value of the Type drop-down list, other options that appear on this worksheet change as well. Scroll down the page and locate the Storage Accounts section of your estimate.Īs you modify the value of these drop-down lists, the cost estimate changes.

On the Azure pricing calculator page, choose the Storage Accounts tile. Use the Azure pricing calculator to estimate costs before you create and begin transferring data to an Azure Storage account. After you're familiar with managing costs for Blob Storage, you can apply similar methods to manage costs for all the Azure services used in your subscription.
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Although this article explains how to estimate and manage costs for Blob Storage, you're billed for all Azure services and resources used for your Azure subscription, including the third-party services. Keep in mind that costs for Blob Storage are only a portion of the monthly costs in your Azure bill. You can also review forecasted costs, and monitor spending trends to identify areas where you might want to act. Use cost management features to set budgets and monitor costs. After you create your storage account, optimize the account so that you pay only for what you need. First, estimate costs by using the Azure pricing calculator. This article helps you plan and manage costs for Azure Blob Storage.
