General Purpose v1 enables access to Block Blobs, Page Blobs, Files, Queues, and Tables—offering our lowest transaction prices but with higher storage prices. General Purpose v1 accounts do not provide access to Cool and Archive storage.

We also support three additional page blob types that require you to deploy with Blob Tier set explicitly. If you deploy the page blob or unmanaged disks only specifying the target size, it will be rounded up to the supported page blob types listed in the table above.

Note: Snapshots are charged at ￥2.35/GB/ per month.

Data Transfer Prices for Blobs

When you write data to a GRS account, the data is replicated to another Azure region. The geo-replication data transfer charge is for bandwidth used to replicate data to the second Azure region. This charge also applies when you change the storage account's replication setting from LRS to GRS or RA-GRS.

Operations prices for Page Blobs used as Unmanaged Disks

We charge ￥0.005088 per 10,000 transactions for Standard Page Blobs attached to VM and used as Unmanaged Disks. Any type of operation against Unmanaged Disks is counted as a transaction including reads, writes, and deletes.

Operations prices for Page Blobs (Non-disks)

Page Blob transactions that are not performed through a VM are billed on a per-transaction basis. For each transaction, a single operation is billed as either a write, a read, or a delete operation. If a read or write transaction is larger than 64 KB, an additional read or write input/output (IO) is billed for each additional 64 KB, up to a maximum of 15 IOs per transaction. If the transaction is larger than 1 MB [64 KB x (1 transaction + 15 IOs)], no further IOs will be charged, regardless of the size of the transaction.

General Purpose v2 provides access to the latest Azure storage features, including Cool and Archive storage, with pricing optimized for the lowest GB storage prices. These accounts provide access to Block Blobs, Page Blobs, Files, and Queues.

Standard Page Blob

Standard Page Blobs use hard disk drive (HDD)-based storage media. They are best suited for development, testing, and other infrequently accessed workloads that are less sensitive to performance variability. Standard page blobs are billed on used size and with each transaction. When deleting files within the file system backed by a page blob, some operating systems may not clear the data after deletion and you may still be charged for the previously used capacity.

Prices for Standard Page Blobs depend on:

• Volume of data stored per month.
• Quantity and types of operations performed, plus outbound data transfer cost.
• Data redundancy.

Data storage for Standard Page Blobs

Data Transfer Prices for Blobs

When you write data to a GRS account, the data is replicated to another Azure region. The geo-replication data transfer charge is for bandwidth used to replicate data to the second Azure region. This charge also applies when you change the storage account's replication setting from LRS to GRS or RA-GRS.

Operations prices for Page Blobs used as Unmanaged Disks

We charge ￥0.005088 per 10,000 transactions for Standard Page Blobs attached to VM and used as Unmanaged Disks. Any type of operation against Unmanaged Disks is counted as a transaction including reads, writes, and deletes.

Operations prices for Page Blobs (Non-disks)

If the transactions of Page Blob are not performed by Virtual Machines, billing is done by the transaction. For every transaction, a single operation shall be considered as write, read or delete for billing. If the size of the read or write is more than 64 KB, an extra read/write (IO) expense will be charged for every excess of 64 KB, and up to 15 IO are charged per transaction. If the size of a transaction is more than 1 MB [64 KB x (1 transaction + 15 IOs)], other IOs are not charged, irrespective of the size of transactions.