Introducing smart tier Public Preview for account level
tiering
Announcing the public preview of smart
tier for Azure Blob Storage and Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS). Smart tier
is a fully managed and automated data tiering solution, avoiding manual tier
placement for object storage standard online tiers.
Smart tier automatically moves your data between hot, cool,
and cold access tiers based on usage patterns, optimizing your costs for these
access tiers automatically. New data is stored in the hot tier. Any
object that isn’t accessed for 30 days is moved to the cool tier; after 90 days
of inactivity, it transitions to the cold tier. If objects are accessed, they
are transitioning back to the hot tier and restart their tiering
cycle.
Key Capabilities
- Seamless
Enablement: Activate smart tier at the storage account scope on new
and existing general purpose v2 storage accounts with zonal redundancies
today.
- Automated
Lifecycle: Data movement between tiers is fully automated. Smart tier ensures
optimal tier placement for both your active and inactive objects.
- Simplified
Billing Model: Your data uses the existing hot, cool and cold tier
capacity prices. There are no charges for
tier transitions inside smart tier, early deletion or data retrieval fees.
A monitoring fee Is charged for objects stored in smart tier over 128 KiB
in size.
Learn more.