About billing. I have an extraordinary storage Blob invoice and I don't understand why and how to fix this

antoine adam 0 Reputation points
2024-09-11T19:39:50.4066667+00:00

I use formrecognition
And I'm not supposed to use Blob.
How to see the Blob content and why I have huge cost on Blob storage ?

Thank you for your help
Antoine

Azure Blob Storage
Azure Blob Storage
An Azure service that stores unstructured data in the cloud as blobs.
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  1. antoine adam 0 Reputation points
    2024-09-14T09:21:18.1033333+00:00

    Thank you but It still doesn't give me the answer.
    I have 3 Mb files in the Blob only. Not explaining the invoice.

    I need to find the way to talk with someone who can explain to me...Capture d’écran 2024-09-14 à 11.18.57.png

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  2. Sumarigo-MSFT 45,786 Reputation points Microsoft Employee
    2024-09-16T07:06:58.1933333+00:00

    @antoine adam Fitsly, Apologies for the delay response!

    Let, me explain how Azure Blob billing is calculated
    Azure Blob Storage usage is calculated in binary Gigabytes (GB), where 1 GB = 230 bytes. This unit of measurement is also known as Gibibyte (GiB), defined by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). Similarly, 1 TB is 240 bytes, i.e. 1,024 GBs.

    Storage capacity is billed in units of the average daily amount of data stored, in gigabytes (GB), over a monthly period. For example, if you consistently used 10 GB of storage for the first half of the month, and none for the second half of the month, you would be billed for your average usage of 5 GB of storage.

    Azure Storage pricing is based on based on Volume of the data (Capacity), Transaction made over the account (Read/Write) and Bandwidth changes. The charges for different sections are also listed in the below documentations:

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/

    Monitor costs

    Based on your sceanrio I would recommend you to, please reach out to Azure Billing team. Billing team would be the best to provide more insight and guidance on this scenario(based on your region and requirement), they provide free support https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/options/

    Additional information :

    You’ll be charged for both read operations per 10,000 blobs and for data retrieval per GB when you toggle your Blob storage or general-purpose v2 account from Cool to Hot. For example, if you have 10,000 blobs equaling 100 GB of data in a Blob Storage or General Purpose v2 account, and you toggle that account from Cool to Hot, you’ll be charged 10,000 x ($0.01/10,000) + 100 × $0.01 = $1.01 for data retrieval.

    You can also take a look at the below link which talks about how to plan and manage the costs. https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-plan-manage-costs

    Calculate the total billing size of a blob container

    Please let me know for any further queries and will be glad to assist.


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