Generally Available: Azure Blob Storage Lifecycle Management now supports improved control on archiving

Lifecycle management now provides users more control over how objects that are rehydrated from the archive tier are returned back to archive after access. We are expanding the daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan option that enables users to specify a minimum duration that rehydrated objects stay accessible in an online tier.

Users can prevent the immediate re-archiving of objects that were recently rehydrated from the archive tier by using the daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan property in lifecycle rules. However, earlier this option only applied to rules based on Last Modified Time (daysAfterModificationGreaterThan). The daysAfterLastTierChangeGreaterThan option has now been extended to archiving rules based on Creation Time (daysAfterCreationGreaterThan) and Last Accessed Time (daysAfterLastAccessTimeGreaterThan).

For more information on configuring your lifecycle policies, read the guide to Optimize costs by automatically managing the data lifecycle - Azure Storage | Microsoft Learn.