Azure Queues Storage Pricing
Reliable, economical cloud storage for data big and small
- No upfront cost
- No termination fees
- Pay only for what you use
Azure has five types of storage—Blobs, Files, Disks, Tables and Queues. See how they work
Your total cost depends on how much you store, the volume and type of storage transactions and outbound data transfers and which data redundancy option you choose. See how they compare in the "Data Redundancy Options" section.
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Queues
Queues provide a reliable messaging solution for your apps.
Storage prices
| Storage Capacity | LRS | GRS | RA-GRS |
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| First 1 TB / Month | $- per GB | $- per GB | $- per GB |
| Next 49 TB (1 to 50 TB) / Month | $- per GB | $- per GB | $- per GB |
| Next 450 TB (50 to 500 TB) / Month | $- per GB | $- per GB | $- per GB |
| Next 500 TB (500 to 1,000 TB) / Month | $- per GB | $- per GB | $- per GB |
| Next 4,000 TB (1,000 to 5,000 TB) / Month | $- per GB | $- per GB | $- per GB |
| Over 5,000 TB / Month | Contact us | Contact us | Contact us |
Access prices
We charge $- per 10,000 transactions for Queues. Any type of operation against the storage is counted as a transaction, including reads, writes and deletes.
Import/Export
Transfer large amounts of data to and from Azure using hard disk drives. Learn more
Data redundancy options
| locally redundant storage | Makes multiple synchronous copies of your data within a single datacenter. |
| zone redundant storage | Stores three copies of data across multiple datacenters within or across regions. For block blobs only. |
| geographically redundant storage | Same as locally redundant storage, plus multiple asynchronous copies to a second datacenter hundreds of miles away. |
| read-access geographically redundant storage | Same as geographically redundant storage, plus read access to the secondary datacenter. |
For more details on redundancy options and how they can be used for high availability, please refer to Azure Storage replication. Please note that not all redundancy types are available for all storage types.
Support & SLA
- Free billing and subscription management support.
- Flexible support plans starting at $29/month. Shop for a plan
- Guaranteed 99.9% or greater availability (excludes preview services). Read the SLA
FAQ
General
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Yes. Storage capacity is billed in units of the average daily amount of data stored, in gigabytes (GB), over a monthly period. For example, if you consistently used 10 GB of storage for the first half of the month and none for the second half of the month, you would be billed for your average usage of 5 GB of storage.
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Storage accounts are set up to be geographically redundant by default. You can change these settings to read-access geographically redundant or locally redundant through the Microsoft Azure classic portal or the service management API. You can also check the status on the portal on using the service management API.
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Storage accounts will be charged for a minimum of 30 days from the time the service is enabled. For example, if read-access geographically redundant storage is turned on 1st May and turned off 5th May, the storage account will be charged for read-access geographically redundant storage through 30th May. After that, geographically redundant storage pricing would start.
If read-access geographically redundant storage is turned on 1st May and turned off 14th June, read-access geographically redundant storage would be charged up to 14th June. On 15th June, geographically redundant storage pricing would take effect.
Blob storage
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A blob storage account is a storage account specialised for storing data as blobs and allows users to specify an access tier based on the frequency of access for the data in that account. General-purpose storage accounts can be used to store blobs as well as files, disks, tables and queues.
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No. Block blob prices in general-purpose storage accounts have not changed. See the prices.
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If you see “Hot”, “Cool” or “Archive” in the resource name, it means that the charge is associated with blob storage accounts. For example, when you see “Standard IO - Cool Block Blob (GB)” in your bill, it means you are using and being charged for blob storage accounts, while “Standard IO – Block Blob (GB)” is the meter associated with the use of block blobs in general-purpose storage accounts.
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In blob storage accounts, you can set the access tier of a blob as Hot, Cool or Archive. Storage GB pricing increases from Archive to Cool to Hot tiers and cost of accessing data increases from Hot to Cool to Archive tiers. The Archive and Cool tiers should be used for rarely and infrequently accessed data respectively, with lower availability SLA requirements. If you do not know the access pattern for your data, we recommend that you start with the Hot tier for at least a month and then determine whether you can save costs by moving to Cool and Archive storage based on your actual usage.
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You will be charged for data retrieval when you toggle your blob storage account from Cool to Hot—for example, if you have 100 GB of data in a blob storage account and you toggle that account from Cool to Hot, you will be charged 100 * $0.01 = $1 for data retrieval.
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No. If you toggle your account from Hot to Cool, you will not be charged for data writes. You will only get charged for data writes if you directly write data to your blob storage account with Cool access tiers.
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When you write data into GRS accounts, that data will be replicated to another Azure region. The Geo-Replication Data Transfer charge is the bandwidth cost of replicating that data to another Azure region.
Disk storage
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If the empty 100 GB disk is backed by a Premium Storage account, then you'll be charged for a P0 (128 GB) disk. If any other type of storage account is used, then you will only be billed for the storage space used to store the data that is written to the disk, regardless of the allocated disk size.
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Yes. 99.9% read/write availability also applies to Premium Storage accounts.
File storage
- You will only be billed for storage used, not the quota set.