Articles about storage tiers

3 articles

• S3 Glacier vs Azure Archive: Price, Restore Time, Minimums

  Oct 13, 2026

  S3 Glacier Deep Archive and Azure Archive both cost $0.00099 per GB a month in US East. They differ in restore times, retrieval fees, and minimums.

  

• Azure Blob Tiers vs AWS S3 Storage Classes (and Google Nearline/Coldline)

  Jun 29, 2026

  Azure Hot, Cool, Cold, and Archive compared with AWS S3 Standard, IA, Glacier, Google Cloud Storage Standard, Nearline, Coldline, Archive, and other provider class names.

  

• Bulk Change Azure Blob Tiers: Hot, Cool, Cold, Archive

  May 11, 2026

  Change the tier of many Azure blobs at once (Hot, Cool, Cold, Archive) without PowerShell or re-uploading. Costs, minimums, and the steps.