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Azure Blob Storage

Microsoft Azure's object storage, billed per GB stored by tier and redundancy, per operation and per GB of internet egress.

Organisations on Azure get storage next to their compute at a rate slightly under S3's: $0.0208 per GB-month on the Hot tier with LRS, stepping down above 50 TB and again above 500 TB. Egress follows the hyperscaler pattern at $0.087 per GB after 100 GB free, falling to $0.05 at high volume, and operations cost $5 per million writes and $0.40 per million reads. The listed rate assumes locally redundant storage; ZRS or GRS redundancy costs more.

Headquarters
馃嚭馃嚫 United States
Parent jurisdiction
馃嚭馃嚫 United States (parent: Microsoft)
EU self-serve plan
Available; check eligible plans and regions
GDPR DPA
Yes
Provider type
Hyperscaler. Part of a hyperscaler cloud: several storage classes, lifecycle rules, fine-grained access control and integration with that cloud鈥檚 other services.
Billing
payg
Free tier
First 100 GB/month of internet egress free; new accounts get trial credit.
Open source
No
Website
azure.microsoft.com
Source last checked
2026-10-06
Pricing evidence
Published rates

Pricing

Calculated from the listed vendor rates; exclusions still apply. How to read these estimates.

Storage / GB-monthInternet egress / GB1M write operations1M read operations
$0.0208, tiered$0.087, tiered$5$0.4
Allowances, plan limits & calculation details

Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.

Base fee / month
$0
Minimum bill / month
$0
Included storage (GB)
0
Storage / GB-month past the last tier
$0.019136
Storage volume tiers
$0.0208/GB through 50,000 GB; $0.019968/GB through 500,000 GB
Included egress (GB)
100
Free egress / stored data (ratio)
0
Internet egress / GB past the last tier
$0.05
Egress volume tiers
$0.087/GB through 10,000 GB; $0.083/GB through 50,000 GB; $0.07/GB through 150,000 GB
1M write operations
$5
1M read operations
$0.4

General Purpose v2 block blob, Hot tier, LRS, East US: $0.0208/GB-month for the first 50 TB, $0.019968 for the next 450 TB, $0.019136 above (from the Azure Retail Prices API, which backs the pricing page). Write operations $0.05 per 10,000 ($5/M); read operations $0.004 per 10,000 ($0.40/M). Internet egress via the Microsoft premium network (azure.microsoft.com/pricing/details/bandwidth/): first 100 GB/month free, then $0.087/GB for the next 10 TB, $0.083 for the next 40 TB, $0.07 next 100 TB, $0.05 next 350 TB. ZRS/GRS redundancy costs more. EU regions are self-serve; DPA via the Microsoft Products and Services DPA.

Managed alternatives

At 50 TB stored, 20 TB egress to internet / month, 10M writes / month, 100M reads / month. Adjust usage and requirements.

Azure Blob Storage: $33,860/yr estimated.

The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you鈥檇 need to replace.

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