Understanding the data archiving options
Many organizations have a requirement to hold some data for longer periods of time. This may be for compliance reasons or simply for long-term record retention.
Although backup solutions do offer long-term retention options, for archival purposes Azure Storage offers a specific archiving tier. We covered the storage tiers in Chapter 9, Exploring Storage Solutions, but to recap, you can configure a storage account as Hot, Cool, or Archive:
- Hot is used for data that is accessed frequently – this is what you would normally choose for a day-to-day storage solution.
- Cool is for data that is accessed infrequently. It is lower-cost than the Hot tier, but it has slightly lower availability.
- Archive storage is design for data that will be kept long-term, but that will be rarely, if ever, accessed once written to. Archive storage is the cheapest option for storage; however, there are costs for reading data from it.
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