Azure Pricing Calculator – Estimating Azure Storage Costs

Please review our blog article for a general discussion of Cloud Storage costs and considerations
https://www.myworkdrive.com/blog/cloud-storage-pricing/

Fichiers Azure

Microsoft has an online calculator you can use to specifically estimate pricing on Azure for Azure Files and Azure Blob Storage

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/costs/pricing-calculator

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/

 

Storage Account

The pricing will depend on a number of factors – region, load, performance, backup/redundancy, size of storage, access rate, etc.

We generally advise Standard performance is all that is required when using API Access to Azure Storage (Premium is recommended when using SMB with AD)

We would advise Hot as the access tier for regularly used files, but you may choose cool/cold/archive for archival type data (be aware the access time for files will be longer, and there will be different egress fees – for example, $.03/gb with Cold vs $0 for Hot in East US with standard performance and LRS as of the authoring of this article.)

 

Redundancy is an organization choice and will have an impact on cost. We don’t have any recommendation regarding redundancy.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-redundancy

 

You may also compare Pay as you go vs Reserved options. MyWorkDrive has no preference regarding Pay as you go vs Reservations of data.

 

 

File Operations

The second consideration will be file operations – users accessing the file share. MyWorkDrive does not generate more traffic than a user accessing via other means, so you can estimate for Azure storage based on your current/normal workflows.

Note that a number of these metrics are per 10000 operations – so the default on the estimate is 100,000 writes for $1.00 (10×10000)

 

 

Sauvegarde

Finally, you will want to consider backup for your file storage. MyWorkDrive does not require or interface with backup and backup method is an organizational choice.

Azure Backup in the cost estimator has similar parameters around access tier size and redundancy, as well as retention policies.