Effective May 6, 2025, Azure Storage Actions is generally available, offering a fully managed platform to automate data management tasks for Azure Blob and Data Lake Storage. This platform helps organizations manage vast datasets efficiently, hence ensuring data security, protection, and governance while reducing operational costs.
Key Features
- Task Composition: You can easily create tasks with complex conditions that target objects based on their properties.
- No Programming Skills Required: You do not need any programming skills to validate tasks against production data.
- Consistent Deployment: You may securely and consistently deploy tasks across thousands of storage accounts.
- Monitoring and Reporting: You can monitor execution using charts and detailed reports.
- Reusable Task Definitions: You can use validated task definitions for any dataset with similar requirements.
Licensing
Azure Storage Actions can be booked within your existing Azure Subscription. Pricing for Azure Storage Actions is based on how often a task is executed on a storage account. Each execution instance is charged based on the number of objects scanned and the operations performed. Recurring tasks may have multiple executions, and charges are applied to the subscription of the storage account.
More information
Product Page: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/storage-actions.
Documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage-actions/storage-tasks/storage-task-quickstart-portal.
Pricing indication: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage-actions/.
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