Microsoft Azure Files Reserved Capacity - Cool GZRS - 100 TB
Secure 100 TB of Microsoft Azure Files Reserved Capacity for cool data storage in the US Central region, ensuring predictable costs and performance for your business.
- Capacity Assurance: Guarantees 100 TB of dedicated storage for your cool data tier, preventing unexpected capacity shortages.
- Cost Predictability: Locks in pricing for reserved capacity, offering significant savings over pay-as-you-go for consistent workloads.
- Performance Tier: Optimized for data that is accessed infrequently but requires rapid retrieval when needed, balancing cost and access speed.
- Regional Focus: Specifically allocated for the US Central region, ensuring data residency and low-latency access for local operations.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides 100 TB of reserved capacity for Microsoft Azure Files using the cool GZRS (Geo-redundant Storage with Zone Redundancy) tier. It is designed for businesses that require a predictable amount of storage for data accessed infrequently but needing rapid retrieval, ensuring both cost efficiency and availability.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this reserved capacity fits into existing Azure File Share deployments. It helps manage storage costs for backup data, archival, or infrequently accessed application data, ensuring compliance and operational continuity without the overhead of managing physical infrastructure.
- Guaranteed Storage: Reserves 100 TB of Azure Files capacity, ensuring availability for your cool data.
- Cost Savings: Offers a lower per-gigabyte cost compared to standard pay-as-you-go for consistent storage needs.
- Geo-Redundancy: Provides data durability and availability across multiple availability zones within a region, plus replication to a secondary region.
- Zone Redundancy: Ensures data availability even if an entire availability zone within the primary region experiences an outage.
- Optimized for Cool Data: Balances storage cost with the need for timely access to infrequently used files.
This reserved capacity is the smart choice for businesses seeking to optimize Azure Files storage costs while maintaining essential data accessibility and durability.
What This Enables
Enable predictable costs for archival data
Enable teams to budget accurately for long-term data archival by locking in storage costs for 100 TB of Azure Files capacity. This ensures that compliance-related or historical data remains accessible at a known price point throughout the subscription term.
cloud-native applications, hybrid cloud environments, data retention policies, long-term backups
Streamline access to infrequently used files
Streamline operations by ensuring rapid retrieval of data that is accessed only occasionally, such as historical project files or regulatory documentation. This reserved capacity guarantees performance for cool data, preventing delays when access is required.
application data tiers, development and testing environments, media asset archives, research data repositories
Automate capacity planning for cool storage
Automate capacity planning by pre-allocating 100 TB of GZRS storage, removing the need for constant monitoring and manual scaling for cool data tiers. This simplifies management and prevents unexpected overages or performance degradation.
managed cloud services, business continuity planning, disaster recovery strategies, operational data storage
Key Features
100 TB Reserved Capacity
Guarantees a fixed amount of storage, preventing unexpected capacity limits and ensuring availability for your cool data.
Cool GZRS Tier
Provides cost-effective storage for infrequently accessed data while maintaining high durability and availability across multiple zones and regions.
Subscription Billing
Offers predictable monthly or annual billing, simplifying financial planning and budget management for cloud storage.
US Central Region
Ensures data is stored within a specific geographic location, meeting data residency requirements and optimizing latency for local users.
Geo-Redundant Storage with Zone Redundancy
Protects your data against localized failures and provides high availability, crucial for business continuity.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data storage solutions that ensure compliance with strict regulations like SEC Rule 17a-4 and offer high availability for critical financial records and transaction data.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must maintain secure, compliant, and accessible storage for patient records (PHI) and research data, often with long retention periods and specific HIPAA requirements.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services need reliable, secure, and cost-effective storage for case files, client documents, and historical data that must be retained for extended periods and readily accessible.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often store large volumes of operational data, historical production logs, and design files that are accessed infrequently but are critical for audits, analysis, and compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Azure Files Reserved Capacity?
Azure Files Reserved Capacity allows you to commit to a specific amount of storage capacity for a one-year or three-year term at a discounted rate compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. It guarantees that capacity will be available for your chosen tier and region.
What is the difference between cool and hot data tiers?
The cool tier is optimized for infrequently accessed data that still requires rapid retrieval, offering a lower storage cost than the hot tier. The hot tier is for frequently accessed data where immediate access is paramount.
What does GZRS mean?
GZRS stands for Geo-redundant Storage with Zone Redundancy. It means your data is replicated across multiple availability zones within a primary region and also asynchronously replicated to a secondary region, providing the highest level of durability and availability.
Deployment & Support
Deployment Complexity
Low — self-service
Fulfillment
Digital Delivery
License keys / portal provisioning
Support Model
Zent Networks Managed
Renewal, add-license, and lifecycle management included
Subscription Terms
Cancellation
Cancel anytime — no charge on next cycle
You may cancel this subscription at any time. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period. You will not be charged for the following billing cycle. Access remains active through the end of the paid term.
Returns
Subscription licenses are non-refundable
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