Hy ppl , I dont understand how azure storage is charged for around 34gb in my subscription. We havent used that much storage space.
I heard there is a quest tool for azure storage explorer.How useful is that ?
Many Thanks.
Are you using Virtual Machines? If that's the case, you have to know that persisted disks are stored as page blobs in your storage account, and you're charged for that. The pricing details page explains why:
Compute hours do not include any Windows Azure Storage costs
associated with the image running in Windows Azure Virtual Machines.
These costs are billed separately. For a full description of how
compute hours are calculated, please refer to the Cloud Services
section.
If you want to know more details on how much data you've used per storage account/day/location/... I suggest you take a look on the subscriptions page. After choosing a subscription you can export a detailed CSV file you can analyse.
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I have a system set up in Microsoft Azure where an Azure VM connects to Azure Blob store and downloads a file for processing. A new output file is generated and the uploaded back into the Azure Blob Store. The output file is several orders of magnitude larger than the input file.
The Azure VM accesses the blob storage through an endpoint like:- "https://xxxxxx.blob.core.windows.net/". Where xxxxxx is the blob store name, redacted for privacy.
My question is, when I upload the output file into the Azure Blob store through that endpoint, does the traffic from the VM count as egress to the internet? I.e. is it chargable? I have trawled through the documentation on the Microsoft Website and even spoken directly with a Microsoft Sales representative and I get conflicting information.
For example you can see this on the MS Website:- Azure Screenshot. But the MS representative was adamant that it would be charged. Obviously this has huge implications on cost for us. In fact, as ingress traffic is free, it may even prove cheaper to host the application outside the Azure cloud!
So, can someone set me straight, will this bandwidth be chargeable? If so, is there a way to avoid this charge? Through some special VNet peering or something?
Thanks Stack Overflow Community!
So, after much experimentation, I have concluded that all traffic between Microsoft Services and your VM's is free. This is true, even if you connect to them from an external IP address provided that you connect to them from the same data centre (i.e. EU North). This was tested with over 6TB of upload from an Azure VM to Azure BLOB store without any cost incurred.
There is rumour that this might change when Microsoft Azure starts to charge for bandwidth between Availability Zones in early 2021. So, if you're relying on this information in the future I advise you to double check and experiment before you commit to nay huge data transfers.
I would say it depends of the region, if both VM and blob are really in the same region, and specially in the same vnet and availability zone it shouldn't be charged.
My recommendation is to test and if it happens to be charged you could open a support request to get the details, they will explain to you why it was charged and if there is a workaround.
There is something wrong that you understand about the outbound data transfers. It means going out of the Azure data center. This is the basic limitation. All the Azure resources are located in the Azure data center. In the same region means in the same Azure data center and the data transfer is in the internal network of the data center without going through the Internet. So it is not charged. On the other hand, the different regions mean different data centers, then the data transfer will go through the Internet, and then it's charged.
To avoid the charge for the request from the VM to the Azure Blob Store. The first thing is to put both the VM and the Azure Blob Store in the same region. And you can use the private endpoint of the Azure Blob Store. In this way, the request will be in the same VNet and do not go through the Internet so that it's not chargeable. Here are the steps to achieve it.
Last month we got 5K bill from Azure for my production workload, $1160 only for blob storage.
I have a single storage account for all my services (Function, WebJob etc.), Under storage account, I'm only using Blob and I didn't store any big file on that account.
I have many Functions and Webjobs processing data from Eventhub and storing checkpoint information into block blob. One of my function processing 15M request per-day and storing Checkpoint in the blob.
I re-visit Microsoft documentation but unable to break this cost with my containers/Areas. Basically, I want to understand Storage, Ingress, Egress and Read/Write wise cost so I can take appropriate action.
If the issue is still not rectified, for more specialized assistance on this kindly contact Azure Billing and Subscription team would be the best to provide more insight and guidance on this scenario: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/, it's free, and it's the best choice for scenario.
Can anyone explain me how count storage transactions ?
For example, I need storage for 10 GB, and daily incremental is about 100mb.
How to count the transactions ?
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Azure Storage Team had published a blog long time back on this - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/07/09/understanding-windows-azure-storage-billing-bandwidth-transactions-and-capacity.aspx. To understand how you're going to get charged for using Azure Storage, I would highly recommend reading this post.
Azure Storage also provides detailed analytics on the operations performed against your storage account. You can find information about the transactions by looking at storage analytics data. You may find this link helpful for that: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/tags/analytics+2d00+logging+_2600_amp_3b00_+metrics/.
Every single access to the storage counts as one transaction (even local, EDIT: eg. web-app to storage). Then you just have to calculate an average.
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Transactions include both read and write operations to storage.
Is there any way of determining the used and/or remaining capacity of an Azure Storage account? I know that the current size limit is 100TB per storage account and I'm looking for either number of bytes used/remaining or, failing that, percentage used/remaining. However I can't see any way of monitoring this even in the Azure portal, let alone doing it programmatically via the API.
You have to enable Storage Analytics. Then read about Storage Account Monitoring.
Finally a look at the Analytics Metrics table(s). Note that it takes minimum 15 minutes until metrics are updated.
And btw, Azure Storage account limit is 500 TB as per Azure Subscription and Service Limits.
UPDATE
After reconsidering, the only way you can get the full storage capacity report is via the Account Billing page. Simply click on your name on top right (management portal v.Current, a.k.a. https://manage.windowsazure.com/) then chose "View My Bill" option.
This page is updated on a daily basis.
There is no API or other programmatic way to get these statistics.
Now it's possible to get it in Azure Monitor. In Azure Portal navigate to All services -> Monitor, click Expore Metrics and select your storage account. There are different useful metrics and Capacity metric is among them.
If you open the storage account in the Azure Portal, there is a Metrics tab (in the menu on the left, not a conventional tab) which will provide you with graphs on account utilisation including used capacity.
This tab works even without usage of Storage Analytics or the Azure Monitor.
Storage Metrics only stores capacity metrics for the blob service because blobs typically account for the largest proportion of stored data (at the time of writing, it is not possible to use Storage Metrics to monitor the capacity of your tables and queues). You can find this data in the $MetricsCapacityBlob table if you have enabled monitoring for the Blob service. Take a look at this Monitoring Capacity document for information on how to monitor the capacity of your storage accounts.
For help estimating the size of various storage objects such as blobs, see the blog post Understanding Azure Storage Billing – Bandwidth, Transactions, and Capacity. Understanding Storage Billing,
Note that Storage does have API's for access metric data programmatically using the CloudAnalyticsClient API. See CloudAnalyticsAPI for a summary.
There's a volume limitation per Azure Storage Account is 200 TB (two hundred terabytes). This sounds real large but if you store files in blob storage 25 megabytes each you can have about four million of them stored which is nice but not something impossible to exhaust.
I want to craft some code that would periodically check how much space I've used and raise an alert.
How can I programmatically find how much space I have already consumed in my storage account?
It looks like current limit for Azure Storage Account is 500TB (see here )
If you can have Azure Storage Account only with blobs in it you can use metrics to fetch current capacity, but current metrics are only showing capacity taken by blobs. See Storage Metrics documentation and how to enable Storage Analytics
Maybe this would help you http://www.amido.com/richard-slater/windows-azure-storage-capacity-metrics-with-powershell/
Not sure about that but it looks like you can create an alert in azure portal on this metric: