Premium Storage billing : Do we pay for an entire P disk ?

Hi all,

After the Premium Storage GA, i was reviewing the Premium Storage pricing and i was surprised by the last line on the FAQ page:

If I attach an empty 100GB disk to my virtual machine, will I be charged for the entire 100 GB or just the storage space I use?

If the empty 100GB disk is backed by a Premium Storage Account then you will be charged for a P0 (128GB) disk. If any other type of Storage Account is used then youll only be billed for the storage space used to store the data that is written to the disk regardless of the allocated disk size

What that means? Do i need to pay for an entire P disk if i use it ?

April 19th, 2015 9:18pm

Hi,

Yes, for premium storage account you will be charged for entire disk and for  any other type of Storage Account is used then youll only be billed for the storage space used to store the data that is written to the disk.

Regards,
Azam Khan

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April 20th, 2015 2:32am
This is very expensive, if i create a 550 GB premium VHD i will pay for an entire P30 disk aja 1024 GB. Where is the pay as you consume strategy?
April 21st, 2015 6:57am

Hi,

Premium storage is different from regular storage.

In premium storage, if you go for P30 the entire 1024GB disk is allocated to you since it is SSD drive and the pricing is different.

Please check this link:
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2014/12/11/introducing-premium-storage-high-performance-storage-for-azure-virtual-machine-workloads/

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Azam khan

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April 22nd, 2015 5:50am
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