Page Blobs
Optimized for random read and write options
Page Blobs are optimized for random read and write options. Page Blobs are ideal for scenarios that require the ability to overwrite a random small segment at a known address, like storing index-based and sparse data structures. Page blobs can be accessed through REST protocol or attached to a VM to support disk traffic as Unmanaged Disks.
Pricing Details
General Purpose v2 provides access to the latest Azure storage features, including Cool and Archive storage, with pricing optimized for the lowest GB storage prices. These accounts provide access to Block Blobs, Page Blobs, Files, and Queues.
We also support three additional page blob types that require you to deploy with Blob Tier set explicitly. If you deploy the page blob or unmanaged disks only specifying the target size, it will be rounded up to the supported page blob types listed in the table above.
| P4 | P6 | P15 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disk Size | 32 GB | 64 GB | 256 GB |
| Price per month | ¥ 63.4728 | ¥ 122.6844 | ¥ 340.26 |
| IOPS per Page Blob | 120 | 240 | 1,100 |
| Throughput per Page Blob | 25 MB/second | 50 MB/second | 125 MB/second |
The pricing of screenshots is charged at the rate of ￥ 1.42/GB for LRS or ￥ 2.14/GB for ZRS per month.
We also support three additional page blob types that require you to deploy with Blob Tier set explicitly. If you deploy the page blob or unmanaged disks only specifying the target size, it will be rounded up to the supported page blob types listed in the table above.
| P4 | P6 | P15 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disk Size | 32 GB | 64 GB | 256 GB |
| Price per month | ¥ 47.53 | ¥ 91.9 | ¥ 254.86 |
| IOPS per Page Blob | 120 | 240 | 1,100 |
| Throughput per Page Blob | 25 MB/second | 50 MB/second | 125 MB/second |
The pricing of screenshots is charged at the rate of ￥ 2.35/GB for LRS per month.
Data storage prices for Standard Page Blobs
| Local Redundant Storage (LRS) | Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) | Read/Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) |
|---|---|---|
| ¥ 0.4579/GB | ¥ 0.6106/GB | ¥ 0.7632/GB |
1 1 TB = 1,024 GB
Operations prices for Page Blobs used as Unmanaged Disks
We charge per 10,000 transactions for Standard Page Blobs attached to VM and used as Unmanaged Disks. Any type of operation against against Unmanaged Disks is counted as a transaction including reads, writes, and deletes.
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| Per 10,000 transactions | ¥0.0051 |
Operations prices for Page Blobs (Non-disks)
Page Blob transactions that are not performed through a VM are billed on a per-transaction basis. For each transaction, a single operation is billed as either a write, a read, or a delete operation. If a read or write transaction is larger than 64 KB, an additional read or write input/output (IO) is billed for each additional 64 KB, up to a maximum of 15 IOs per transaction. If the transaction is larger than 1 MB [64 KB x (1 transaction + 15 IOs)], no further IOs will be charged, regardless of the size of the transaction.
| Local Redundant Storage (LRS) | Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) | Read/Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Write operations 1 (per 10,000) | ￥0.0153 | ￥0.3053 | ￥0.3053 |
| Write additional IO units (per 10,000) | ￥0.0237 | ￥0.0474 | ￥0.0474 |
| Read operations 2 (per 10,000) | ￥0.0153 | ￥0.0153 | ￥0.0153 |
| Read additional IO units (per 10,000) | ￥0.0017 | ￥0.0017 | ￥0.0017 |
| Delete operations | Free | Free | Free |
General Purpose v1 enables access to Block Blobs, Page Blobs, Files, Queues, and Tables—offering our lowest transaction prices but with higher storage prices. General Purpose v1 accounts do not provide access to Cool and Archive storage.
Premium Page Blobs prices
Premium Non-Managed Disk, a high-performance storage based on a solid state drive (SSD), aims to support I/O intensive workloads through extremely large throughput and extremely low delay. With the help of Premium Non-Managed Disk, we can set permanent disk and configure its size and performance characteristics.
The total expenses of Premium Non-Managed Disk depends on the disk size and quantity, and is subjected to the data transfer . The disk size provides different input/output operations per second (IOP), throughput limit and monthly pricing per GB. We can select necessary options most appropriate to applications, including storage size, IOP and throughput. We can add several permanent disks onto the VM and configure at most 64 TB storage space to every VM. The disk throughput of every VM can reach up to 80,000 (number of input/output operations per second) and 1600 MB/second, with a read delay of less than 1 millisecond. Premium Non-Managed Disk is supported by the sizes of the DS Series, DSv2 Series and FS Series VMs exclusively used for Premium Disk. The pricing and billing standards of DS Series VMs are the same as the D Series VMs.
| PAGE BLOB TYPES | P10 | P20 | P30 | P40 | P50 | P60 1 | P70 | P80 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disk sizes | 128 GB | 512 GB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 4 TB | 8 TB | 128 GB | 512GB |
| Monthly pricing | ￥117.61 | ￥436.93 | ￥806.59 | ￥1,545.77 | ￥2,957.12 | ￥5,914.24 | ￥62,521 | ￥125,042 |
| IOPS per Page Blob | 500 | 2,300 | 5,000 | 7,500 | 7,500 | 7,500 | 18,000 | 20,000 |
| Throughput per Page Blob | 100 MB /second | 150 MB /second | 200 MB /second | 250 MB /second | 250 MB /second | 250 MB /second | 750 MB /second | 900 MB /second |
| PAGE BLOB TYPES | P10 | P20 | P30 | P40 | P50 | P60 1 | P70 | P80 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disk sizes | 128 GB | 512 GB | 1 TB | 2 TB | 4 TB | 8 TB | 128 GB | 512GB |
| Monthly pricing | ￥117.61 | ￥436.93 | ￥806.59 | ￥1,545.77 | ￥2,957.12 | ￥5,914.24 | ￥62,521 | ￥125,042 |
| IOPS per Page Blob | 500 | 2,300 | 5,000 | 7,500 | 7,500 | 7,500 | 18,000 | 20,000 |
| Throughput per Page Blob | 100 MB /second | 150 MB /second | 200 MB /second | 250 MB /second | 250 MB /second | 250 MB /second | 750 MB /second | 900 MB /second |
We also support three additional page blob types that require you to deploy with Blob Tier set explicitly. If you deploy the page blob or unmanaged disks only specifying the target size, it will be rounded up to the supported page blob types listed in the table above.
| P4 | P6 | P15 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Disk Size | 32 GB | 64 GB | 256 GB |
| Price per month | ¥ 47.53 | ¥ 91.9 | ¥ 254.86 |
| IOPS per Page Blob | 120 | 240 | 1,100 |
| Throughput per Page Blob | 25 MB/second | 50 MB/second | 125 MB/second |
The pricing of screenshots is charged at the rate of ￥ 2.35/GB per month.
Standard Page Blob prices
Standard Disks employ a hard disk drive (HDD)-based storage medium. They are most suitable for development/testing not sensitive to performance changes and other non-frequent access workloads.
Standard unmanaged disk storage charges for stored data size (GB) , quantity of transactions and data transfer .
| Local Redundant Storage (LRS) | Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) | Read/Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) |
|---|---|---|
| ¥ 0.595296/GB | ¥ 0.793728/GB | ¥ 0.99216/GB |
| Local Redundant Storage (LRS) | Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) | Read/Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) |
|---|---|---|
| ¥ 0.45792/GB | ¥ 0.61056/GB | ¥ 0.7632/GB |
| Local Redundant Storage (LRS) | Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) | Read/Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) |
|---|---|---|
| ￥ 0.275/GB | ￥ 0.55/GB | ¥ 0.66/GB |
Operations prices for Page Blobs used as Unmanaged Disks
We charge per 10,000 transactions for Standard Page Blobs attached to VM and used as Unmanaged Disks. Any type of operation against against Unmanaged Disks is counted as a transaction including reads, writes, and deletes.
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| Per 10,000 transactions | ￥0.006614 |
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| Per 10,000 transactions | ￥0.005088 |
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| Per 10,000 transactions | ￥0.0037 |
Operations prices for Page Blobs (Non-disks)
If the transactions of Page Blob are not performed by Virtual Machines, billing is done by the transaction. For every transaction, a single operation shall be considered as write, read or delete for billing. If the size of the read or write is more than 64 KB, an extra read/write (IO) expense will be charged for every excess of 64 KB, and up to 15 IO are charged per transaction. If the size of a transaction is more than 1 MB [64 KB x (1 transaction + 15 IOs)], other IOs are not charged, irrespective of the size of transactions.
| Local Redundant Storage (LRS) | Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) | Read/Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writes 1 (per 10,000 counted) | ￥0.019843 | ￥0.396864 | ￥0.396864 |
| Write extra IO units (per 10,000 counted) | ￥0.030823 | ￥0.061646 | ￥0.061646 |
| Read 2 (per 10,000 counted) | ￥0.019843 | ￥0.019843 | ￥0.019843 |
| Read extra IO units (per 10,000 counted) | ￥0.002249 | ￥0.002249 | ￥0.002249 |
| Delete | Free | Free | Free |
| Local Redundant Storage (LRS) | Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) | Read/Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writes 1 (per 10,000 counted) | ￥0.015264 | ￥0.30528 | ￥0.30528 |
| Write extra IO units (per 10,000 counted) | ￥0.02371 | ￥0.04742 | ￥0.04742 |
| Read 2 (per 10,000 counted) | ￥0.015264 | ￥0.015264 | ￥0.015264 |
| Read extra IO units (per 10,000 counted) | ￥0.00173 | ￥0.00173 | ￥0.00173 |
| Delete | Free | Free | Free |
| Local Redundant Storage (LRS) | Geo-Redundant Storage (GRS) | Read/Access Geo-Redundant Storage (RA-GRS) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Writes 1 (per 10,000 counted) | ￥ 0.0044 | ¥ 0.0044 | ￥ 0.0044 |
| Write extra IO units (per 10,000 counted) | Free | Free | Free |
| Read 2 (per 10,000 counted) | ￥ 0.0044 | ¥ 0.0044 | ¥ 0.0044 |
| Read extra IO units (per 10,000 counted) | Free | Free | Free |
| Delete | ¥ 0.0044 | ¥ 0.0044 | ￥ 0.0044 |
FAQ
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Why billing time has been based on the maximum disk capacity even though I have deleted the data on the disk?
Virtual disks are stored as page blobs on Azure. Page blobs are a sparse way of storing, and only the capacity that actually writes data is billed. Refer to HERE for how to free up unused virtual disk space to reduce billing capacity.
Support & SLA
If you have any questions or need help, please visit Azure Support and select self-help service or any other method to contact us for support.
We guarantee that we can successfully process data reading requests from an offsite redundant storage (RA-GRS) account at least 99.99% of the time (99.9% for the Cold Access Layer), provided that we will retry in the secondary zone from the data writing failure from the primary zone.
We guarantee that we can successfully process data reading from local redundant storage (LRS) and offsite redundant storage (GRS) accounts at least 99.9% of the time (99% for the Cold Access Layer)
We guarantee that we can successfully process data writing requests into onsite redundant storage (LRS) and geo-redundant storage (GRS) accounts and read and access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS) accounts at least 99.9% of the time (99% for the Cold Access Layer).
To learn more about the details of our Service Level Agreement, please visit the Service Level Agreements page.
The Managed Disk itself doesn’t provide a Service Level Agreement with financial support. The availability of a Managed Disk depends on the Service Level Agreement governing the basic storage used and the Virtual Machine it’s attached to. To learn more about the details of the Service Level Agreement of the Managed Disk, please visit the Managed Disk Service Level Agreements page.