Microsoft Azure Storage Reserved Capacity Cool 10 PB RA-GRS 3 Years
Secure 10 PB of Microsoft Azure Cool storage with RA-GRS redundancy for a 3-year term, ensuring cost-effective and highly available data storage for your business.
- Cost Savings: Benefit from significantly reduced storage costs compared to pay-as-you-go for predictable, high-volume data needs over 3 years.
- High Availability: RA-GRS (Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage) ensures your data is replicated across multiple regions for disaster recovery and continuous access.
- Capacity Assurance: Guarantee 10 PB of dedicated Cool storage capacity, preventing performance throttling and ensuring your data is always accessible.
- Simplified Management: Pre-purchased capacity simplifies budgeting and procurement for large-scale storage requirements.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides a 3-year reservation for 10 Petabytes (PB) of Microsoft Azure Cool storage with Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) redundancy. It is designed for businesses with substantial, predictable data storage needs that require both cost optimization and high availability.
Ideal for IT Managers and IT Professionals in SMB and mid-market companies, this reserved capacity fits into environments managing large datasets, archives, backups, or infrequently accessed data that still requires geo-redundancy. It ensures consistent performance and cost predictability for critical business data.
- Reserved Capacity: Guarantees 10 PB of Cool storage, preventing unexpected capacity limits.
- Cost Optimization: Significant discounts are applied for committing to a 3-year term, lowering the overall cost of ownership.
- Geo-Redundancy: RA-GRS ensures data is replicated to a secondary region, providing disaster recovery capabilities and high availability.
- Cool Tier Access: Optimized for storing data that is accessed less frequently but requires rapid access when needed.
- Predictable Billing: Fixed cost over 3 years aids in financial planning and budget management.
This 3-year reserved capacity is the optimal choice for SMB and mid-market teams needing to manage large data volumes cost-effectively while maintaining high availability and disaster recovery.
What This Enables
Enable large-scale data archiving and compliance
Enable teams to store vast amounts of historical data and meet regulatory compliance requirements by reserving 10 PB of cost-effective Cool storage. This ensures long-term data retention with geo-redundant protection against loss.
Cloud-native deployments, hybrid cloud environments, data-intensive operations, compliance-focused organizations
Streamline backup and disaster recovery strategies
Streamline backup operations and enhance disaster recovery capabilities by dedicating 10 PB of RA-GRS storage for your backup data. This guarantees capacity and availability for critical recovery points, minimizing downtime risk.
Business continuity planning, multi-site operations, data protection initiatives, IT infrastructure management
Automate cost management for predictable workloads
Automate cost management for predictable, high-volume storage needs by committing to a 3-year reservation. This eliminates the variability of pay-as-you-go pricing for large datasets, simplifying financial forecasting.
Financial planning, IT budget management, large-scale application data, predictable data growth scenarios
Key Features
10 PB Reserved Capacity
Guarantees sufficient storage space for large datasets, preventing performance bottlenecks and ensuring data accessibility.
3-Year Commitment Term
Provides significant cost savings compared to on-demand pricing and simplifies long-term budget planning.
Cool Storage Tier
Optimized for cost-effective storage of infrequently accessed data that still requires rapid retrieval.
RA-GRS Redundancy
Ensures high availability and durability by replicating data across geographically separate data centers for disaster recovery.
Microsoft Azure Platform
Integrates seamlessly with other Azure services, offering a secure and scalable cloud infrastructure.
Industry Applications
Media & Entertainment
This industry generates and stores massive amounts of data, such as video files and project assets, making reserved capacity for cool storage with geo-redundancy highly beneficial for cost management and data protection.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must retain large volumes of patient records and imaging data for extended periods to meet regulatory compliance, making reserved cool storage with RA-GRS ideal for long-term, cost-effective archiving.
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require secure, durable, and compliant storage for transaction histories, audit logs, and customer data, where reserved capacity ensures availability and predictable costs for massive data archives.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often store large datasets from IoT devices, production logs, and historical operational data that require cost-effective, long-term storage with high availability for analysis and compliance purposes.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Azure Storage Reserved Capacity?
It is a program that allows you to reserve storage capacity in Azure for a 1-year or 3-year term at a significantly discounted rate compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. This helps in managing costs for predictable storage needs.
What is RA-GRS storage?
RA-GRS stands for Read-Access Geo-Redundant Storage. It provides high durability by replicating your data synchronously three times within a primary region and asynchronously to a secondary region hundreds of miles away. You can also read data from the secondary region.
Who should consider this offering?
Businesses with large, predictable data storage requirements, such as those managing extensive archives, backup data, media libraries, or scientific datasets, can benefit from the cost savings and guaranteed capacity.
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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