Which Blob for O365 backups?

[Luca82]

Hi everyone, can you help me to understand which type of blob storage do I have to select in order to estimate the cost?

(i) PERFORMANCE TIER:
Standard or Premium

I'll go with standard

(ii) STORAGE ACCOUNT TYPE:
V1 or V2 or Blob

I'll go with the default (v2) but don't know the differences

(iii) ACCESS TIER:
Hot or Cool or Archive

even here I don't know which is the better choiche..


can you help me to understand?

Thank you

[Polina]

Hi,

1) PERFORMANCE TIER
The Standard tier allows for further selecting a Hot or Cool access tier to get the option that is best for you in terms of storage cost.
Here you can get the basic description of the differences between the different performance tiers: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/prici ... age/blobs/

2) STORAGE ACCOUNT TYPE
GPv2 is the recommended type. GPv1 is already a legacy type.

3) ACCESS TIER
Hot has higher storage costs, but lower access costs. In terms of backup, it means that you pay more for storing your backups and less for backup operations (read/create/etc).
Cool is the opposite - it provides cheaper storage, but more expensive access operations.
Here's more on this: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ ... s-overview

Microsoft provides a nice tool for cost estimations: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/prici ... management
And here you can get some estimations on backup operations: https://bp.veeam.com/vbo/guide/design/s ... orage.html

Hope it helps )

[Luca82]

It helps thank you! Therefore just to estimate ... I assume 50% of backup data (due to compression) and GPv2 standard tier...