Virtual Machines Storage Account

Storage Account costs

Resource Details

Instance 1In Progress

Region

Type

Performance

Storage Account Type

File Structure

Access Tier

Redundancy

Quantity

No. of Virtual Machines

Duration

Operations and Data Transfer

Write Operations

× $ 0.05

List and Create Container Operations

× $ 0.05

Read Operations

× $ 0.004

All other Operations

× $ 0.004

Data Retrieval

× Free

Data Write

× Free

Point-in-time Restore

× $ 0.031

Estimation

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On-demand pricing
1yr Plan
- 38%
3yrs Plan
- 62%
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HOW TO USE THIS CALCULATOR

Estimate your Azure bill in three steps

1

Configure your resources

Select your Azure VM series (B, D, E series) or Storage Account type and region. Prices vary by location — East US is usually the baseline.

2

Set usage and quantity

Select hours or days of operation and instance count for your Azure workloads. Full-time production runs 730 hours per month.

3

Compare and decide

Compare 1-year and 3-year Azure Savings Plans against On-Demand pricing to find optimal savings for your infrastructure.

PRICING MODEL

How Azure Storage pricing works

An Azure Storage Account bills capacity, transactions, and data retrieval as separate lines, and two independent choices set the rates for all three. The access tier reflects how often you expect to read the data: Hot is the most expensive to store and cheapest to access, while Cool, Cold, and Archive get progressively cheaper to hold and progressively more expensive to read. Archive additionally holds data offline, so retrieval takes hours rather than milliseconds.

Redundancy is the second choice and it multiplies the capacity charge directly. Locally redundant storage keeps three copies inside one datacentre and is the cheapest. Zone-redundant storage spreads copies across availability zones in a region. Geo-redundant options replicate to a paired region hundreds of miles away and cost the most, with read-access variants adding a further premium for readable secondary endpoints. The cooler tiers also apply minimum retention periods, so deleting data early still incurs the balance of that period.

What drives your Storage bill

Access tier

Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive trade storage price against access price. Archive is by far the cheapest per GB and by far the most expensive and slowest to read back.

Redundancy

LRS, ZRS, GRS, and RA-GRS multiply the capacity charge as replication widens from one datacentre to a paired region. This is usually the largest single lever on a storage bill.

Transactions

Read and write operations are billed per ten thousand requests, and the cooler tiers charge considerably more per operation. Chatty small-object workloads are transaction-bound rather than capacity-bound.

Data retrieval

Hot has no retrieval charge. Cool, Cold, and Archive add a per-GB fee for reading data back, which can invert the apparent saving if the data turns out to be accessed regularly.

Minimum retention

Cool carries a thirty day minimum, Cold ninety, and Archive a hundred and eighty. Deleting or re-tiering earlier still bills the remainder of that period.

Storage pricing questions

How accurate is this Azure Storage calculator?
Estimates are based on published Microsoft Azure storage rates for each region and are refreshed regularly. Index tags, blob versioning, change feed, and any Enterprise Agreement pricing are not included, so treat the result as a planning baseline rather than an invoice forecast.
How do redundancy options affect cost?
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