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Calculate price of migrating azure storage from one region to another


I couldn't find an easy way to evaluate


  • how much money

  • how long it would take to transfer my storage from one region (us-west1) to another (us-east1)

Can somebody help me out

Thanks


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@MartinRatinaud-3141 Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, Thank you for posting your query here!

Firstly, apologies for the delay in responding here and any inconvenience this issue may have caused.

To move a storage account, create a copy of your storage account in another region. Then, move your data to that account by using AzCopy( I would recommended to use Azcopy tool, It's optimized for performance. One way that it's faster, is that data is copied directly between storage servers,), or another tool of your choice.

Prerequisites: Ensure that the services and features that your account uses are supported in the target region.
For preview features, ensure that your subscription is allow listed for the target region.

Is data transfer between Azure services located in two regions charged? Yes. Outbound data transfer is charged at the normal rate and inbound data transfer is free.

Pricing depends on size of storage account and backend available bandwidth, and it's a async transfer. There are no data transfer charges when services in the same region communicate with each other. However, the outbound data transfer charges kick in when an Azure service in one region communicates with an Azure service in another region. The charges will depend on the Zone from which the traffic originates. The incoming traffic to the target service is still considered free.

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Move an Azure Storage account to another region

For more details refer to this article: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-in/pricing/details/bandwidth/

If you still find any difficulties in pricing/billing, Free billing and subscription management support is been provided. Billing and Subscription team would be the best to provide more insight and guidance on the pricing. Since it's based on the region , Account Type, Capacity, Transactions, Data egress( refers to any data transferred out of an Azure region. When the data in your storage account is accessed by an application that isn't running in the same region, you're charged for data egress. For information about using resource groups to group your data and services in the same region to limit egress charges)

Hope this helps!

Kindly let us know if the above helps or you need further assistance on this issue.


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