Read-only pricing evidence

Real prices. We resent how affordable some of them are.

Rust owns the pricing contract and freshness assessment. This page displays its observations without calculating quotes, converting currencies, or filling missing values. SWA’s fictional prices and sales commentary are separate from this evidence.

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Canonical provider evidence

A persisted provider capture, not a live quote. This read does not contact the provider. Freshness uses Rust's 24-hour capture-age policy; even fresh API evidence is reference-only.

Freshness assessed by Rust: 2026-11-05T16:31:31.012754825Z
Read contract: swa.pricing-read.v1

Azure · General Block Blob v2

Hot LRS Data Stored · westeurope · Consumption · Reference only — not eligible for estimates

Fresh by API age policy — not source verification

Provider API capture — not an account quote or independent verification

Response captured: 2026-11-05T16:01:25.749427678Z
Provider effective start (not capture time): 2017-02-03T00:00:00Z
Provider-native billing unit: 1 GB/Month · Not converted to decimal GB or GiB

Recorded Azure Retail Prices API query

Graduated tiers in provider units, not subscription totals. Lower bounds are inclusive; each next lower bound is the preceding tier's exclusive upper bound.
Tier	Minimum units (inclusive)	Upper bound (exclusive)	Observed unit amount
1	0	51200	0.0196 USD / 1 GB/Month
2	51200	512000	0.018816 USD / 1 GB/Month
3	512000	No published upper bound	0.018032 USD / 1 GB/Month

Public retail storage meter only; not an account quote. Provider GB/Month retained without conversion. Excludes operations, retrieval, transfer, taxes, discounts, free allowances and other meters. No total-cost estimate.

Capture identity and meter scope

Identifiers and hashes trace stored evidence. They do not independently verify a price.

Source ID: azure-blob-hot-lrs-westeurope
Provider ID: azure
Product ID: DZH318Z0BPH7
SKU ID: DZH318Z0BPH7/00BJ
Meter ID: 10e5ee74-8fd6-4972-909f-65a83f92f0ce
Capture ID: b873c86a987a5a6479f16e8b984c1cc28622349e202a0846fd7aee2a276bf02c
Response SHA-256: 7be349365b4642de364fec5d4818a029a9925d4bedf2b46cd9f710ef89ba7d94
Observation contract: swa.provider-observation.v1