I'm somewhat new to Azure coming from an AWS background.
In Amazon, EC2 virtual machines use EBS (similar to page blobs) for running disks. However, when a snapshot of the machine is taken, the snapshot is stored in lower cost S3 storage.
I am trying to achieve the same scenario in Azure. When I take a snapshot of an Azure VM using "Save-AzureVMImage" the disks are saved to page blob storage. I am unlikely to need these snapshots as they will only be used for recovering from catastrophic configuration errors. I would like to save these disk images as block blobs as I believe the storage costs are approximately one quarter of page blob storage costs in Australia.
How do I do this? Is there a better best practice? What about backing up to Amazon S3 storage?
THANKS
Peter
BTW Is this question better asked here or in the "Azure Virtual Machines" forum?