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Azure Storage Reserved Capacity helps you lower your data storage cost by committing to one-year or three-years of Azure Storage. Reserved capacity can be purchased in increments of 100 TB and 1 PB sizes for 1-year and 3-year commitment duration. All prices are per month. For more information, please see documentation.

Blobs are subject to an early deletion penalty if they are deleted, overwritten or moved to a different tier before the minimum number of days required by the tier have transpired. Any blob that is moved to the Archive tier is subject to an Archive early deletion period of 180 days. Any blob that is moved to the Cold tier is subject to a Cold tier early deletion period of 90 days. Any blob that is moved to the Cool tier is subject to a Cool tier early deletion period of 30 days. This charge is prorated. Please refer to the documentation page for the full details.

For blobs in Archive, the only valid operations are GetBlobProperties, GetBlobMetadata, ListBlobs, SetBlobTier, SetBlobTags, GetBlobTags, FindBlobsByTags, DeleteBlob, and CopyBlob. Setting the tier from Archive to Hot or Cool typically takes up to 15 hours to complete. Learn more.

With Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS), you pay only for what you provision. Volume storage for all EBS volume types is charged by the amount of GB you provision per month until you release the storage. Costs increase for EBS volumes that support additional input/output operations per second (IOPS) and throughput beyond baseline performance.

Amazon EBS Snapshots are point-in-time copies of your block data. EBS Snapshots in the Standard tier are stored incrementally, which means you are billed only for the changed blocks stored. EBS Snapshots in the Archive tier are full copies of your block data, which means you are billed for all the blocks stored and not just the changed blocks. Snapshots in the Archive tier have a minimum retention period of 90 days. Archived snapshots that are deleted or permanently restored to the Standard tier before 90 days will incur a pro-rated charge equal to the storage charge for the remaining days. Additional charges apply for retrievals from the Archive tier.

Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) allows you to promptly restore fully provisioned EBS volumes from snapshots, regardless of the size of the volume or snapshot. You can enable FSR on snapshots you own or those shared with you. FSR is charged in Data Services Unit-Hours (DSU-Hours) for each snapshot and each Availability Zone in which it is enabled. DSUs mean that you are billed per minute with a one-hour minimum. You will continue to incur charges on an FSR-enabled snapshot until you disable it.

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Volume storage for General Purpose SSD (gp3) volumes is charged by the amount you provision in GB per month until you release the storage. All gp3 volumes include a free baseline performance of 3,000 provisioned IOPS (input/output operations per second) and 125 provisioned MB/s throughput. Additional IOPS and throughput can be provisioned independently and are charged by the amount you provision in IOPS per month and MB/s per month until you release the IOPS or throughput. Provisioned storage, provisioned IOPS, and provisioned throughput for gp3 volumes will be billed in per-second increments, with a 60-second minimum.

Volume storage for General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes is charged by the amount you provision in GB per month until you release the storage. Provisioned storage for gp2 volumes will be billed in per-second increments, with a 60-second minimum. I/O is included in the price of the volumes, so you pay only for each GB of storage you provision.

Volume storage for EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD io2 volumes is charged by the amount you provision in GB per month until you release the storage. With Provisioned IOPS SSD io2 volumes, you are also charged by the amount you provision in IOPS (input/output operations per second) per month. The provisioned IOPS charges are tiered. Therefore, as you provision higher IOPS on a single volume, the effective provisioned IOPS charges decrease, making it more economical to scale IOPS on a single volume. Provisioned storage and provisioned IOPS for io2 volumes will be billed in per-second increments, with a 60-second minimum.

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Similarly, if you provision a volume greater than 64,000 IOPS in an account enabled for io2 Block Express, IOPS above 64,000 will be charged at the rate of the third tier of provisioned IOPS.

Volume storage for EBS Provisioned IOPS SSD (io2 and io1) volumes is charged by the amount you provision in GB per month until you release the storage. With Provisioned IOPS SSD (io1 and io2) volumes, you are also charged by the amount you provision in IOPS (input/output operations per second) per month. Provisioned storage and provisioned IOPS for io1 and io2 volumes will be billed in per-second increments, with a 60-second minimum.

Volume storage for Throughput Optimized HDD (st1) volumes is charged by the amount you provision in GB per month until you release the storage. Provisioned storage for st1 volumes will be billed in per-second increments, with a 60-second minimum. I/O is included in the price of the volumes, so you pay only for each GB of storage you provision.

Volume storage for Cold HDD (sc1) volumes is charged by the amount you provision in GB per month until you release the storage. Provisioned storage for sc1 volumes will be billed in per-second increments, with a 60-second minimum. I/O is included in the price of the volumes, so you pay only for each GB of storage you provision.

Snapshot storage is based on the amount of space your data consumes in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3). Because Amazon EBS does not save empty blocks, it is likely that the snapshot size will be considerably less than your volume size. For the first snapshot of a volume, Amazon EBS saves a full copy of your data to Amazon S3. For each incremental snapshot, only the changed part of your Amazon EBS volume is saved. Copying EBS snapshots is charged for the data transferred across regions. After the snapshot is copied, standard EBS snapshot charges apply for storage in the destination region.

Example pricing is based on the US-East (N. Virginia) region. Fast Snapshot Restore (FSR) is charged in Data Services Unit-Hours (DSU-Hours) for each snapshot and each Availability Zone in which it is enabled. DSUs are billed per minute with a one-hour minimum. You will continue to incur charges until you disable FSR on a snapshot. The price of 1 DSU-Hour is $0.75.

GetSnapshotBlock API is charged per SnapshotAPIUnit. One GetSnapshotBlock API request uses a block size of 512 KiB and consumes one SnapshotAPIUnit. Note that 512 KiB is the only block size supported today, so each GetSnapshotBlock request consumes one SnapshotAPIUnit. For example, if you make 100,000 GetSnapshotBlock API calls using a block size of 512 KiB in a region that charges $0.003 per thousand SnapshotAPIUnits, you will be charged $0.30 ($0.003 per thousand SnapshotAPIUnits * 100,000 SnapshotAPIUnits).

PutSnapshotBlock API is charged per SnapshotAPIUnit. One PutSnapshotBlock API request uses a block size of 512 KiB and consumes one SnapshotAPIUnit. Note that 512 KiB is the only block size supported today, so each PutSnapshotBlock request consumes one SnapshotAPIUnit. For example, if you make 100,000 PutSnapshotBlock API calls using a block size of 512 KiB in a region that charges $0.006 per thousand SnapshotAPIUnits, you will be charged $0.60 ($0.006 per thousand SnapshotAPIUnits * 100,000 SnapshotAPIUnits).

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