Reading contracts isn’t my strong suit; I often find myself paying penalties or high costs. It can happen, and it does, but I think it’s useful to share my experiences.
Today, I want to share my experience with Azure Blob Storage.
I’ll start by saying that I’ve used the service for years and consider it to be of excellent quality. However, having undertaken a European consolidation of my resources, I decided to move my data from Microsoft to OVH Object Storage.
On Azure, I had a container of about 12TB containing a few million objects. On Sunday morning, I started studying the situation and after a few hours of study, I decided that rclone was what I needed.
Over the past few months, the cost of invoices had remained largely unchanged. Last month, however, I noticed a significant increase.
I linked this increase to the fact that I had granted access to two colleagues to allow them to use the data, which I used sporadically. Essentially, I was saving information that I almost never read. This kept the cost below a certain level. As soon as I started downloading data from the container, the costs went up. Curious to see what would happen with the migration of the entire container, I’m monitoring the situation, and so far, after moving about half the data, this is the situation.
As you can see, the storage reduction has an impact, but the skyrocketing bandwidth costs significantly increase the invoice amount. Personally, I’ve never had large amounts of data stored in the cloud, so perhaps that’s why the situation surprised me.
For me, this type of service is perfect for information I want to save and access occasionally; for other scenarios, I’ll continue to use local storage.
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