A city clerk must keep decade-old council minutes in Azure Blob Storage. The files are almost never opened and retrieval can wait hours. Which access tier best matches this pattern?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Think of archive like a sealed basement box of old minutes—cheap to store, slow and deliberate to open. When the clerk almost never needs those files and can wait, Archive is the fit. Hot and cool cost more for that near-zero access pattern.
Full Explanation
Azure Blob Storage access tiers trade storage price against access frequency and retrieval cost or latency. Archive is intended for data that is retained long term and read infrequently, accepting higher retrieval latency and rehydration steps. Hot suits frequently accessed data; Cool sits between hot and archive for infrequent but still online access. Selecting Archive for decade-old council minutes matches the fundamentals guidance that rarely retrieved retention data belongs on the lowest-access tier.