A municipal communications office streams town-hall video to citizens from Azure Blob Storage and sees rising charges tied to data leaving Azure toward the public internet. Which cost factor is primarily at work?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Shipping bits out of the cloud is like postage — volume adds up. Azure often meters data leaving its datacenters toward the internet. Heavy citizen streaming means egress bandwidth becomes a cost factor, not just storage sitting quietly.
Full Explanation
Azure typically does not charge for inbound data the same way it meters outbound transfer. Egress bandwidth for content delivered to users can drive meaningful cost for media and public-facing workloads. Identifying bandwidth as a cost factor is part of Domain 3 cost management at fundamentals depth. Catalog, Arc, and template count are not the primary drivers of streaming egress charges.