Azure Data Lake Store
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What is Azure Data Lake Store
Hadoop-compatible data lake storage
Azure-native security integration
Designed for large-scale throughput
Legacy product positioning
Not an analytical database
Azure ecosystem dependency
Plan & Pricing
Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (usage-based) Free tier/trial: Azure free account — $200 credit for 30 days; some free monthly amounts for 12 months and a set of "always free" services (storage-related free amounts exist on the Azure Free Services page). Product-level permanent free tier for Azure Data Lake Storage was not shown on the official pricing pages.
Pricing components (official site):
- Storage (billed per GiB/month). Pricing varies by access tier (Hot / Cool / Cold / Archive / Premium), by volume bands (e.g., first 50 TB, next 450 TB, >500 TB) and by region/replication option.
- Transactions (billed per 10,000 operations; read and write operation meters are listed separately).
- Data retrieval / data scanned (charged per GB for some tiers / query acceleration).
- Additional metadata/operation charges when hierarchical namespace (Data Lake features) is enabled (extra metadata and directory rename meters).
- Reserved capacity (1-year and 3-year) options for bulk storage (examples: 100 TB and 1 PB reserved capacity SKUs) that provide discounted pricing vs pay-as-you-go.
Example costs: Official Microsoft pricing pages require region and redundancy (replication) filters to display concrete per-GB and per-operation prices. In the static capture of the official pricing pages the numeric per-GB and per-10k-operation prices did not render (page displays interactive placeholders). Therefore specific numeric examples (e.g., $/GB for East US Hot tier) could not be reliably extracted from the vendor site in this session and are marked unavailable here.
Discount options: Reserved capacity (1-year and 3-year) and volume/commitment discounts; enterprise/custom pricing available via Contact Sales / Request a pricing quote on Microsoft site.
Notes / source behavior: The official Azure Data Lake Storage pricing page and the Azure Blob Storage pricing page indicate pricing is regional and depends on redundancy and access tier; they instruct signing in to the Azure pricing calculator or contacting sales for exact quotes. The interactive pricing tables require selecting Region / Redundancy / Currency to view numeric rates.
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