We’re excited to announce the overall availability of Azure Storage Discovery.
We’re excited to announce the overall availability of Azure Storage Discovery, a totally managed service that delivers enterprise-wide visibility into your knowledge property in Microsoft Azure Blob Storage and Azure Information Lake Storage. Azure Storage Discovery helps you optimize storage prices, adjust to safety greatest practices, and drive operational effectivity. With the included Microsoft Copilot in Azure integration, all choice makers and knowledge customers can entry and uncover invaluable knowledge administration insights utilizing easy, on a regular basis language—no specialised programming or question abilities required. The intuitive expertise supplies superior knowledge visualizations and actional intelligence which can be most necessary to you.
Companies are rushing up digital transformation by storing massive quantities of information in Azure Storage for AI, analytics, cloud native apps, HPC, backup, and archive. This knowledge spans a number of subscriptions, areas, and accounts to satisfy workload wants and compliance guidelines. The info sprawl makes it difficult to trace knowledge progress, spot sudden knowledge discount, or optimize prices with out clear visibility into knowledge traits and entry patterns. Organizations battle to determine which datasets and enterprise items drive progress and utilization probably the most. With out a world view and streamlined insights throughout all storage accounts, it’s difficult to make sure knowledge availability, residency, safety, and redundancy are persistently aligned with greatest practices and regulatory compliance necessities.
Azure Storage Discovery makes it easy to achieve and analyze insights to handle such massive knowledge estates.
Analyze your knowledge property with Azure Storage Discovery
Azure Storage Discovery permits you to simply arrange a workspace with storage accounts from any area or subscription you’ll be able to entry. The primary insights can be found in lower than 24 hours, and you will get began by analyzing your knowledge property.
Unlock clever insights utilizing pure language with Copilot in Azure
Use pure language to ask for the storage insights you have to accomplish your storage administration targets. Copilot in Azure expresses them utilizing wealthy knowledge visualizations, like tables and charts.
Interactive stories constructed into the Azure portal
Azure Storage Discovery generates out-of-box dashboards you’ll be able to entry from the Azure portal, with insights that allow you to visualize and analyze your knowledge property. The stories embrace filters to your storage knowledge property by area, redundancy, and efficiency, permitting you to shortly drill down and uncover the insights necessary to you.
Superior storage insights
The stories ship insights, at a look, throughout a number of dimensions, serving to you handle your knowledge successfully:
- Capability: Insights about useful resource, object sizes, and counts aggregated by subscriptions, useful resource teams, and storage accounts with progress traits.
- Exercise: Visualize transactions, ingress, and egress for insights on how your storage is accessed and utilized.
- Safety: Highlights crucial safety configurations of your storage assets with outliers together with public community entry, shared entry key, nameless entry to blobs, and encryption settings.
- Configurations: Surfaces configuration patterns throughout your storage accounts like redundancy, lifecycle administration, stock, and others.
- Errors: Highlights failed operations and error codes to assist determine patterns of points that may be impacting workloads.
Kickstart your insights without spending a dime, together with 15 days of historic knowledge
Getting began is straightforward with entry to fifteen days of historic insights inside hours of deploying your Azure Storage Discovery workspace. The usual pricing plan provides probably the most complete set of insights, whereas the free pricing plan will get you going with the fundamentals.
Analyze long run traits with 18 months of insights
The Azure Storage Discovery workspace with the usual pricing plan, will retain insights for as much as 18 months so you’ll be able to analyze long-term traits and any enterprise or season particular workload patterns.
Azure Storage Discovery is offered to you right now! You may be taught extra about Azure Storage Discovery right here and even get began within the Azure Portal right here.
Use Copilot to resolve crucial enterprise issues
Through the design of Azure Storage Discovery, we spoke with many shoppers throughout numerous business-critical roles, reminiscent of IT managers, knowledge engineers, and CIOs. We realized AI may simplify onboarding by eradicating the necessity for infrastructure deployment or coding information. Because of this, we included Copilot in Azure Storage Discovery from the beginning. It provides insights past customary stories and dashboards utilizing pure language queries to ship actionable info via visualizations like pattern charts and tables.
To get began, merely navigate to your Azure Storage Discovery workspace useful resource within the Azure portal, and activate Copilot.
Determine alternative to optimize prices
Understanding storage measurement traits is essential for price optimization, and analyzing these traits by area and efficiency sort can reveal necessary patterns about how the information is evolving over time. With Azure Storage Discovery’s 18 months of information retention, you’ll be able to uncover long-term traits and sudden modifications throughout your knowledge property, whereas Copilot shortly visualizes storage measurement traits damaged down by area.
“How is the storage measurement trending over the previous month by area?”
Discovering cost-saving alternatives throughout many storage accounts will be troublesome, however Copilot simplifies this by highlighting accounts with the very best financial savings potential based mostly on capability and transactions as proven under.
“Present an inventory of storage accounts with default entry tier as Sizzling, which can be above 1TiB in measurement and have the least transactions”
Earlier than taking any motion, you’ll be able to dive even deeper into the insights by evaluating distributions. For instance, a distribution of entry tiers throughout blobs.
“Present me a chart of blob rely by blob entry tier”
Understanding that almost all of objects are nonetheless within the Sizzling tier supplies instant alternatives to scale back prices by enabling Azure Storage Actions to tier down and even delete knowledge that’s not accessed regularly. Azure Storage Actions is a totally managed, serverless platform that automates knowledge administration duties—like tiering, retention, and metadata updates—throughout thousands and thousands of blobs in Azure Blob Storage and Information Lake Storage.
Assess whether or not storage configurations align with safety greatest practices
For higher storage safety, Microsoft recommends utilizing Microsoft Entra ID with managed identities as a substitute of Shared Key authentication. Azure Storage Discovery lets you shortly see that there are nonetheless many storage accounts with shared entry keys enabled and drill down into an inventory of Storage accounts that want optimization.
“Present me a pie chart of my storage accounts with shared entry key enabled by area”
Handle your knowledge redundancy necessities
Azure supplies a number of redundancy choices to satisfy knowledge availability, catastrophe restoration, efficiency, and value wants. These selections ought to be frequently reviewed towards dangers and advantages for an efficient storage technique. Azure Storage Discovery shortly reveals the redundancy configuration for all storage accounts and means that you can analyze the most suitable choice for every workload and demanding enterprise knowledge.
“Present me a chart of my storage account rely by redundancy”
Pricing and availability
A single Azure Storage Discovery workspace can analyze the subscriptions and storage accounts from all supported areas. Be taught extra concerning the areas supported by Azure Storage Discovery right here. The service provides a free pricing plan with insights associated to capability and configurations retained for as much as 15 days and a customary pricing plan that additionally contains superior insights associated to exercise, errors, and safety configurations. Insights are retained for as much as 18 months, permitting you to investigate traits and enterprise cycles.
Be taught extra concerning the pricing plans within the Azure Storage Discovery documentation and entry the costs to your area right here.
Get began with Azure Storage Discovery
Getting began with Azure Storage Discovery is straightforward. Merely observe these two steps:
- Configure an Azure Storage Discovery workspace and choose the set of subscriptions and useful resource teams containing your storage accounts.
- Outline the “Scopes” that symbolize your online business teams or workloads.
That’s it! Give it a second. As soon as a workspace is configured, Azure Storage Discovery begins aggregating the related insights and makes them obtainable to you through intuitive charts. You’ll discover them within the Azure portal, on completely different report pages of your workspace. We’ll even look again in time and supply 15 days of historic knowledge. Your insights are usually obtainable inside a number of hours.
To get began, go to Azure Storage Discovery within the Azure Market.
You may also deploy through the model new Storage Heart within the Azure portal. Discover Azure Storage Discovery within the “Information administration” part.
Wish to learn extra earlier than deploying? The planning information walks you thru all of the necessary issues for a profitable Azure Storage Discovery deployment.
We’d love to listen to your suggestions. What insights are most beneficial to you? What would make Azure Storage Discovery extra invaluable for your online business? Tell us at: StorageDiscoveryFeedback@service.microsoft.com.
