Azure Data Lake Storage archive tier is now generally available

The archive tier for Azure Data Lake Storage is now generally available. The archive tier provides an ultra-low cost tier for long term retention of data while keeping your data available for future analytics needs. Tier your data seamlessly among hot, cool, and archive so all your data stays in one storage account. Lifecycle management policies can be set so files are moved automatically to the archive tier when data access becomes rare. When needed, data in the archive tier can be quickly and easily rehydrated so that the data is available for your analytics workloads. 

To learn more, please read the documentation on the archive tier. 

Data stored in archive starts as just $0.0010 per GB. To learn more about pricing, visit the Azure Data Lake Storage pricing page.