Microsoft Storage Reserved Capacity, Cool - 1 PB, GZRS, 3 Years
Secure 1 PB of Microsoft Azure cool storage with GZRS redundancy for a 3-year term, ensuring predictable costs and high availability for your critical business data.
- Access to Reserved Capacity: Guarantees 1 PB of cool storage, preventing unexpected capacity limits and ensuring data accessibility.
- GZRS Redundancy: Provides Geo-Zone Redundant Storage for enhanced data durability and availability across multiple Azure regions.
- 3-Year Term: Locks in pricing and capacity for three years, simplifying budgeting and long-term data management planning.
- Cost Predictability: Offers a fixed cost for the reserved capacity, mitigating the risk of fluctuating storage expenses.
Product Overview
Product Overview
This offering provides 1 Petabyte (PB) of Microsoft Azure Cool storage with Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS) for a duration of 3 years. It is designed to reserve a specific amount of storage capacity at a predictable cost, ensuring your data is always available and protected against regional outages.
Businesses utilizing Azure for their core operations, such as storing large datasets, backups, or infrequently accessed files, benefit from this reservation. It is ideal for IT Managers or IT Professionals needing to guarantee storage resources for applications and services without the overhead of managing physical infrastructure.
- Guaranteed Capacity: Reserves 1 PB of cool storage, ensuring availability for your critical data.
- Geo-Zone Redundancy (GZRS): Protects data by replicating it across multiple Azure availability zones within a region and asynchronously to a secondary region.
- Cost Savings: Offers a significantly lower rate compared to pay-as-you-go cool storage when capacity is consistently utilized.
- Long-Term Planning: Provides price stability and capacity assurance for a 3-year commitment.
- Performance Tier: Optimized for storing large amounts of data that are accessed infrequently but require rapid access when needed.
Ensure your Azure storage needs are met with predictable costs and robust data protection, empowering your business operations without enterprise-level complexity.
What This Enables
Guaranteeing Storage Capacity for Archival Data
Enable teams to store vast amounts of infrequently accessed data, such as historical records or compliance archives, with guaranteed capacity. Streamline data management by reserving a fixed volume of cool storage, ensuring it is always available for retrieval.
cloud-native applications, data warehousing, long-term data retention
Ensuring Data Availability with Geo-Redundancy
Protect critical business data against regional outages by utilizing Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS). Automate data replication across multiple Azure availability zones and to a secondary region, ensuring business continuity.
disaster recovery planning, business continuity, high-availability systems
Optimizing Cloud Storage Costs
Streamline budgeting by committing to a fixed storage cost for 3 years, significantly reducing expenses compared to pay-as-you-go models for consistent workloads. Enable teams to forecast IT expenditures with greater accuracy.
cost management, financial planning, predictable IT spending
Key Features
1 PB Reserved Cool Storage
Guarantees a substantial volume of storage for infrequently accessed data, preventing capacity shortages and ensuring availability.
Geo-Zone Redundant Storage (GZRS)
Provides high data durability and availability by replicating data across multiple Azure availability zones and a secondary region, protecting against regional failures.
3-Year Term Commitment
Locks in pricing and capacity for an extended period, simplifying financial planning and offering cost predictability.
Cool Storage Tier
Offers a cost-effective solution for data that is accessed less frequently but still requires rapid access when needed.
US East 2 Region
Ensures data is stored in a specific, compliant geographic location, meeting potential regulatory or performance requirements.
Industry Applications
Finance & Insurance
Financial institutions require robust data protection and long-term data retention for regulatory compliance and audit purposes, making GZRS and reserved capacity highly valuable.
Healthcare & Life Sciences
Healthcare organizations must comply with strict data privacy regulations like HIPAA, necessitating secure, durable, and highly available storage for patient records and research data.
Legal & Professional Services
Law firms and professional services companies handle sensitive client data that requires secure, long-term archival and immediate retrieval capabilities, aligning with the benefits of reserved cool storage.
Manufacturing & Industrial
Manufacturers often generate large volumes of operational data, sensor logs, and historical production records that need cost-effective, durable storage for analysis and compliance.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Microsoft Azure Storage Reserved Capacity?
It is a commitment to use a specific amount of Azure storage capacity for a set term (1 or 3 years) in exchange for a discounted rate. This helps businesses predict and manage their cloud storage costs more effectively.
What is GZRS and why is it important?
GZRS stands for Geo-Zone Redundant Storage. It provides the highest level of durability and availability by replicating data across multiple Azure availability zones within a region and asynchronously to a secondary region, protecting against data loss and downtime.
Who is the ideal customer for this offering?
This offering is ideal for businesses that have consistent, large-volume storage needs for infrequently accessed data in Azure and want to optimize costs while ensuring high data availability and durability.
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
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