Question

A media company stores raw camera footage in an Azure Storage account (general-purpose v2). After 30 days footage is rarely accessed but must be retained for 7 years for potential legal use. When occasionally needed, files can wait up to 12 hours before retrieval. The company wants to minimize storage cost while meeting these retrieval expectations. Which approach should you recommend?

Accepted Answer

Use a lifecycle management policy to move blobs to the Archive tier after 30 days, rehydrating them when access is required.

Answer

Use a lifecycle management policy to move blobs to the Cool tier after 30 days and keep them there for the retention period.

Answer

Keep all blobs in the Hot tier and enable point-in-time restore for the retention period.

Answer

Move the account to a Premium block blob storage account to reduce long-term retention cost.