Generally Available: Azure NetApp Files storage with cool access for all service levels

With the general availability of cool access feature, your standard service level capacity pools in addition to volumes created in premium and ultra service level capacity pools can transparently store data more cost-effectively on Azure storage accounts based on their access pattern.

The cool access feature provides the ability to configure a capacity pool with cool access, that moves cold (infrequently accessed) data transparently to Azure storage account to help reduce the total cost of storage. There will be a difference in data access latency as data blocks might be tiered to Azure storage account. The cool access feature provides options for the “coolness period” to optimize the days in which infrequently accessed data moves to cool tier and network transfer cost, based on your workload and read/write patterns. The ‘coolness period” feature is provided at the volume level.

In a cross-region or cross-zone replication setting, cool access can now be configured for destination only volumes as well to ensure data protection. This provides you with cost savings without any latency impact on source volumes.

Learn more about this feature and its pricing:

• Azure NetApp Files pricing
• Manage Azure NetApp Files standard storage with cool access
• What's new in Azure NetApp Files