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Using lifecycle management for data

Using lifecycle management for data

- [Instructor] In this lesson, I want to look at a particular feature of Storage accounts called lifecycle management. So in this Storage account that we've got set up, we've set the performance and the access tier to Standard and Hot. So this is usually the default that you would use for most. So the the important part is the access tier, which is set to Hot. So this means that it's the cheapest for accessing files, so reading and writing from files, but it's slightly more expensive than the Cool tier for actually storing the files. There's actually a third access tier called Archive. Archive is the cheapest access tier from terms of storing the data. However, it's the most expensive for reading and writing that data. We can't actually set it as the access tier at the Archive tier. Instead, what we do is we control access to it through lifecycle management. So in the bottle here, I'm going to go to Lifecycle…

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