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An organization needs to retain regulatory audit files for seven years to meet legal compliance standards. These files will rarely be accessed, and the organization can tolerate several hours of retrieval latency in exchange for the lowest possible monthly storage capacity cost.
Which Azure Blob Storage access tier should the organization choose for these files?
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The Archive tier is an offline storage tier in Azure Blob Storage specifically designed for storing data that is rarely accessed and can tolerate retrieval latency ranging from several minutes to several hours.
The Archive tier is the optimal choice because the scenario prioritizes minimal storage expense over immediate data availability. The higher retrieval costs and multi-hour latency are acceptable trade-offs for historical compliance records that may never need to be read.