{"id":3597,"date":"2017-08-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-06-24T05:18:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T12:18:30","slug":"announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-archive-blob-storage-and-blob-level-tiering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/announcing-the-public-preview-of-azure-archive-blob-storage-and-blob-level-tiering\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing the public preview of Azure Archive Blob Storage and Blob-Level Tiering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"archive-storage-is-now-generally-available-please-refer-to-cloud-storage-now-more-affordable-announcing-general-availability-of-azure-archive-storage-blog-post-for-more-details-from-startups-to-large-organizations-our-customers-in-every-industry-have-experienced-exponential-growth-of-their-data-a-significant-amount-of-this-data-is-rarely-accessed-but-must-be-stored-for-a-long-period-of-time-to-meet-business-continuity-and-compliance-requirements-examples-include-employee-data-medical-records-customer-information-financial-records-backups-etc-additionally-recent-and-coming-advances-in-artificial-intelligence-and-data-analytics-are-unlocking-value-from-data-that-might-have-previously-been-discarded-customers-want-to-keep-more-of-these-data-sets-for-a-longer-period-but-need-a-scalable-and-cost-effective-solution-to-do-so-last-year-we-launched-cool-blob-storage-to-help-customers-reduce-storage-costs-by-tiering-their-infrequently-accessed-data-to-the-cool-tier-today-we-re-announcing-the-public-preview-of-archive-blob-storage-designed-to-help-organizations-reduce-their-storage-costs-even-further-by-storing-rarely-accessed-data-in-our-lowest-priced-tier-yet-furthermore-we-re-excited-to-introduce-the-public-preview-of-blob-level-tiering-enabling-you-to-optimize-storage-costs-by-easily-managing-the-lifecycle-of-your-data-across-these-tiers-at-the-object-level-the-ceo-of-hubstor-a-leading-enterprise-backup-and-archiving-company-stated-we-are-jumping-for-joy-to-see-the-amazing-design-microsoft-successfully-implemented-azure-archive-blob-storage-is-indeed-an-excellent-example-of-microsoft-leapfrogging-the-competition\">Archive Storage is now generally available. Please refer to \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/cloud-storage-now-more-affordable-announcing-general-availability-of-azure-archive-storage\/\">Cloud storage now more affordable: Announcing general availability of Azure Archive Storage<\/a>\u201d blog post for more details.From startups to large organizations, our customers in every industry have experienced exponential growth of their data. A significant amount of this data is rarely accessed but must be stored for a long period of time to meet business continuity and compliance requirements. Examples include employee data, medical records, customer information, financial records, backups, etc. Additionally, recent and coming advances in artificial intelligence and data analytics are unlocking value from data that might have previously been discarded. Customers want to keep more of these data sets for a longer period but need a scalable and cost-effective solution to do so.Last year, we launched&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/blog\/introducing-azure-cool-storage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cool Blob Storage<\/a>&nbsp;to help customers reduce storage costs by tiering their infrequently accessed data to the Cool tier. Today we\u2019re announcing the public preview of&nbsp;<strong>Archive Blob Storage<\/strong>&nbsp;designed to help organizations reduce their storage costs even further by storing rarely accessed data in our lowest-priced tier yet. Furthermore, we\u2019re excited to introduce the public preview of<strong>&nbsp;Blob-Level Tiering<\/strong>&nbsp;enabling you to optimize storage costs by easily managing the lifecycle of your data across these tiers at the object level.The CEO of HubStor, a leading enterprise backup and archiving company, stated: \u201cWe are jumping for joy to see the amazing design Microsoft successfully implemented. Azure Archive Blob Storage is indeed an excellent example of Microsoft leapfrogging the competition.\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"azure-archive-blob-storage\">Azure Archive Blob Storage<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Azure Archive Blob storage is designed to provide organizations with a low cost means of delivering durable, highly available, secure cloud storage for rarely accessed data with flexible latency requirements (on the order of hours). See&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/azure\/storage\/blobs\/storage-blob-storage-tiers#archive-access-tier-preview\">Azure Blob Storage: Hot, cool, and archive tiers&nbsp;<\/a>to learn more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Archive tier, in addition to&nbsp;<strong>Hot<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Cool&nbsp;<\/strong>access tiers, is now available in Blob Storage accounts. Archive Storage characteristics include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Cost-effectiveness<\/strong>: Archive access tier is our lowest priced storage offering. Customers with long-term storage which is rarely accessed can take advantage of this. For more details on regional preview pricing, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/pricing\/details\/storage\/\">Azure Storage Pricing<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Seamless Integration<\/strong>: Customers use the same familiar operations on blobs in the Archive tier as on blobs in the Hot and Cool access tiers. This will enable customers to easily integrate the new access tier into their applications.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Durability<\/strong>: All access tiers including Archive are designed to offer the same high durability that you have come to expect from Azure Storage with the same data replication options available today.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li class=\"wp-block-list-item\"><strong>Security<\/strong>: All data in the Archive access tier is automatically encrypted at rest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"blob-level-tiering-easily-optimize-storage-costs-without-moving-your-data\">Blob-Level Tiering:\u00a0 easily optimize storage costs without moving your data<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To simplify data lifecycle management, we now allow customers to tier their data at the blob level.\u00a0 Customers can easily change the access tier of a blob among the Hot, Cool, or Archive tiers as usage patterns change, without having to move data between accounts. Blobs in all three access tiers can co-exist within the same account.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"flexible-management\">Flexible management<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Archive Storage and Blob-level Tiering will be available on all Blob Storage accounts. For customers with large volumes of data in General Purpose accounts, we will allow upgrading your account to get access to Cool, Archive, and Blob-level Tiering at GA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A user may access the feature using .NET (see Figure 1), the Azure portal (see Figure 2), the Java client library, Python (preview), Node.js client libraries, or REST APIs initially.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/b2261702-953a-48c0-a6e9-17d9a4689ebc.webp\" alt=\"code text\" class=\"wp-image-10933 webp-format\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/b2261702-953a-48c0-a6e9-17d9a4689ebc.webp\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Figure 1: Set blob access tier using .NET client library<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/56e1610a-896d-4c9e-b587-f06618de273a.webp\" alt=\"graphical user interface, text, application, email\" class=\"wp-image-10935 webp-format\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/56e1610a-896d-4c9e-b587-f06618de273a.webp\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Figure 2: Set blob access tier in portal<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"pricing\">Pricing<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pricing for Azure Archive Blob Storage during preview will be reduced. Please refer to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/pricing\/details\/storage\/blobs\/\">Azure Blobs Storage Pricing<\/a>\u00a0page for more details.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"how-to-get-started\">How to get started<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>NOTE:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/cloud-storage-now-more-affordable-announcing-general-availability-of-azure-archive-storage\/\">Archive Storage is now generally available&nbsp;<\/a>and no feature registration is required to use this service.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To enroll in the public preview, you will need to submit a request to register this feature to your subscription. After your request is approved (within 1-2 days), any new LRS Blob Storage account you create in US East 2 will have the Archive access tier enabled, and all new accounts in all public regions will have blob-level tiering enabled. During preview, only LRS accounts will be supported but we plan to extend support to GRS and RA-GRS accounts (new and existing) as well at GA. Blob-level tiering will not be supported for any blob with snapshots. As with&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/support\/legal\/preview-supplemental-terms\/\">most previews<\/a>, this should not be used for production workloads until the feature reaches GA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To submit a request, run the following PowerShell or CLI commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"powershell\"><strong>PowerShell<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nRegister-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowArchive -ProviderNamespace Microsoft.Storage\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will return the following response:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nFeatureName         ProviderName      RegistrationState \n-----------         ------------      ----------------- \nAllowArchive        Microsoft.Storage   Pending \n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It may take 1-2 days to receive approval.\u00a0 To verify successful registration approval, run the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nGet-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName AllowArchive -ProviderNamespace  Microsoft.Storage\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the feature was approved and properly registered, you should receive the following output:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\nFeatureName         ProviderName      RegistrationState \n-----------         ------------      ----------------- \nAllowArchive        Microsoft.Storage   Registered  \n\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"cli-2-0\"><strong>CLI 2.0<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\naz feature register \u2013-namespace Microsoft.Storage \u2013-name AllowArchive\n\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This will return the following response:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n{\n  \"id\": \"\/subscriptions\/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx\/providers\/Microsoft.Features\/providers\/Microsoft.Storage\/features\/AllowArchive\",\n  \"name\": \"Microsoft.Storage\/AllowArchive\",\n  \"properties\": {\n    \"state\": \"Pending\"\n  },\n  \"type\": \"Microsoft.Features\/providers\/features\"\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It may take 1-2 days to receive approval.\u00a0 To verify successful registration approval, run the following command:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n-az feature show \u2013-namespace Microsoft.Storage \u2013-name AllowArchive\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the feature was approved and properly registered, you should receive the following output:<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-syntaxhighlighter-code \"><pre class=\"brush: plain; auto-links: false; gutter: false; title: ; quick-code: false; notranslate\" title=\"\">\n{\n  \"id\": \"\/subscriptions\/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx\/providers\/Microsoft.Features\/providers\/Microsoft.Storage\/features\/AllowArchive\",\n  \"name\": \"Microsoft.Storage\/AllowArchive\",\n  \"properties\": {\n    \"state\": \"Registered\"\n  },\n  \"type\": \"Microsoft.Features\/providers\/features\"\n}\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"get-it-use-it-and-tell-us-about-it\">Get it, use it, and tell us about it<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re confident that Azure Archive Blob Storage will provide another critical element for optimizing your organization\u2019s cloud data storage strategy. As this is a preview, we look forward to hearing your feedback on these features, which you can send by email to us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:archivefeedback@microsoft.com\">archivefeedback@microsoft.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we\u2019re announcing the public preview of Archive Blob Storage designed to help organizations reduce their storage costs even further by storing rarely accessed data in our lowest-priced tier yet. 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