Exam DP203 Course Tybul 05 Storage Account Access Tiers

05 Storage Account Access Tiers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9m4y1mbJ8y8

Data lake storage pricing. Cost per Mb, and cost per access speed read/writes, and other factors (local vs geo redundancy).

Access tiers

Speed, storage costs, access costs, retention period.

Hot: Expensive to write and store, but fast and cheap to read.

Cool: Cheaper to store, fast, more expensive to read.

Cold:fast

Archive: Very slow access (15 hours), but highest access cost.

You set these once you create a container in a storage account, and at the point you upload a file. Note with the sandbox this option does not seem to be available. But in a regular account it is. Note also that it is not necessary to have upgraded the account to Gen2 to get this option.