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Exam AZ900 Topics: architecture Difficulty: medium

An analyst sees that the cool tier has a lower storage price than hot and proposes moving the company's product catalog images — which website visitors view constantly — to cool to cut spending. Why would this change most likely increase the total cost?

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  1. A. Cool has lower storage costs but higher access costs than hot, and constant reads can outweigh the savings
  2. B. Cool blobs can only be read through authenticated REST calls, which are billed at a premium
  3. C. Cool storage is offline, so every read would first require a rehydration that takes hours
  4. D. Cool requires data to be stored for at least 180 days, and the product catalog changes every week
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Correct answer: Cool has lower storage costs but higher access costs than hot, and constant reads can outweigh the savings

Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/access-tiers-overview

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