A company plans to migrate its historical compliance logs to Azure Blob Storage and assign them to the Archive access tier to minimize costs. A developer needs to retrieve information from one of these archived logs to troubleshoot an application issue. Which of the following describes the requirement for reading the data stored in this tier?
- The blob must be rehydrated to either the Hot or Cool access tier before it can be read.Answer
- BThe blob can be read directly, but the read operation will experience latency of several hours while the storage system prepares the data stream.
- CThe blob can only be read after the customer manually patches the operating system of the underlying storage hosting infrastructure.
- DThe blob can be read directly only if a ReadOnly resource lock is applied to the containing storage account.
Answer
The blob must be rehydrated to either the Hot or Cool access tier before it can be read.
The correct answer is correct because the Archive access tier in Azure Blob Storage is an offline tier. Blobs in this tier cannot be read directly. In order to read the data, they must be rehydrated, which means changing their tier to Hot or Cool, or copying them to a new blob in an online tier.
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Key Concept
Azure Blob Storage Archive Access Tier Rehydration
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