We’re excited to announce the general public preview of Azure Storage Discovery, a completely managed service that gives you enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Blob Storage information property.
We’re excited to announce the general public preview of Azure Storage Discovery, a completely managed service that gives you enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Blob Storage information property. It offers a single pane of glass to know and analyze how your information property has developed over time, optimize prices, improve safety, and drive operational effectivity. Azure Storage Discovery integrates with the Azure Copilot enabling you to make use of pure language to unlock insights and speed up decision-making with out using any question language.
As your group expands its digital footprint within the cloud, managing huge and globally distributed datasets throughout numerous enterprise items and workloads turns into more and more difficult. Insights aggregated throughout the complete Azure Blob Storage information property can simplify the detection of outliers, allow long-term pattern evaluation, and assist deep dives into particular assets utilizing filters and pivots. Presently, clients depend on disparate instruments and PowerShell scripts to generate, preserve and examine such insights. This requires fixed improvement, deployment, and administration of infrastructure at scale. Azure Storage Discovery automates and scales this course of by aggregating insights throughout all of the subscriptions in your Microsoft Entra tenant and delivering them to you instantly inside the Azure portal.
Whether or not you’re a cloud architect, storage administrator, or information governance lead, Azure Storage Discovery helps you shortly reply key questions on your enterprise information property in Azure Blob Storage:
- How a lot information can we retailer throughout all our storage accounts?
- Which areas are experiencing the best progress?
- Can I scale back our prices by discovering information that’s not being regularly used?
- Are our storage configurations aligned with safety and compliance greatest practices?
With Azure Storage Discovery, now you can discover such insights—and lots of extra—with just some clicks and with a Copilot by your aspect.
From perception to motion with Azure Storage Discovery
Azure Storage Discovery simplifies the method of uncovering and analyzing insights from hundreds of storage accounts, remodeling complexity into readability with just some clicks.
Among the key capabilities are:
Faucet into Azure Copilot to get solutions to essentially the most important storage questions for what you are promoting, with no need to be taught a brand new question language or writing a single line of code. You should utilize Copilot to transcend the pre-built stories and produce collectively insights throughout capability, exercise, errors and configurations.
Acquire superior storage insights that allow you to analyze how the information property in Azure Blob Storage is rising, determine alternatives for price optimization, uncover information that’s under-utilized, pinpoint workloads that could possibly be getting throttled and discover methods to strengthen the safety of your storage accounts. These insights are powered by metrics associated to storage capability (object measurement and object rely), exercise on the information property (transactions, ingress, egress), aggregation of transaction errors and detailed configurations for information safety, price optimization and safety.
Interactive stories within the Azure Portal make it easy to investigate tendencies over time, drill into prime storage accounts, and immediately navigate to the precise assets represented in every chart. The stories may be filtered to concentrate on particular components of the information property based mostly on Storage account configurations like areas, redundancy, efficiency sort, encryption sort, and others. Group-wide visibility with versatile scoping to collect insights for a number of enterprise teams or workloads. Analyze as much as 1 million storage accounts unfold throughout completely different subscriptions, useful resource teams and areas inside a single workspace. The power to drill down and filter information means that you can shortly receive actionable insights for optimizing your information property.
Totally managed service obtainable proper within the Azure Portal, with no further infrastructure deployment or affect on business-critical workloads.
As much as 30 days of historic information will routinely be added inside hours of deploying Azure Storage Discovery and all insights might be retained for as much as 18 months.
Buyer tales
A number of clients have already began exploring Azure Storage Discovery in the course of the preview to investigate their enterprise Azure Blob Storage information property. Listed below are a couple of clients who discovered rapid worth in the course of the preview.
Getting a 360-degree view of the information property in Azure Blob Storage
Tesco, one of many world’s largest and most revolutionary retailers, has been leveraging Storage Discovery in preview to realize an “easy 360 View” of its information property in Azure Blob Storage. To spice up agility in improvement, the cloud deployment at Tesco is operated in a extremely democratized method, giving departments and groups autonomy over their subscriptions and storage accounts. Nonetheless, to handle their cloud spend, guarantee their deployment is configured appropriately and optimize their information property, every staff is searching for detailed insights in a well timed method. The Cloud Platform Engineering (CPE) staff works with every staff offering them centralized information for price evaluation, safety, and operational reporting. Presently, gathering and reporting on these insights to every staff is a extremely guide and operationally difficult activity. As early adopters they’ve been utilizing Azure Storage Discovery to supply a centralized, tenant-wide dashboard—to allow a “single-pane-of-glass” for key metrics and baselines. This helps them scale back the assets and time related to answering easy questions comparable to “how a lot information do now we have, and the place?” or “what’s our baseline tendencies?”
As our information property in Azure Storage continues to develop, it has develop into time consuming to collect the insights required to drive choices round ‘How’ and ‘What’ we do—particularly on the tempo which is commonly demanded by stakeholders. At this time, lots of that is carried out utilizing PowerShell scripts which even with parallelism, take a major time to run, on account of our general scale. Something which reduces the time it takes me to collect priceless insights is tremendous priceless. On the opposite aspect, if I have been to place my Ops hat on, the information introduced is compelling for conversations with utility groups; permitting us to concentrate on what actually issues and addressing our prime shoppers, versus being ‘snowed in’ underneath a mountain of information.
—Rhyan Waine, Lead Engineer, Cloud Platform Engineering, Tesco
Handle price range by figuring out Storage Accounts which can be rising quickly
Willis Towers Watson (WTW) is on the forefront of utilizing generative AI to boost their providing for Human Assets and Insurance coverage companies whereas additionally balancing their prices. With Azure Storage Discovery, the staff was in a position to shortly determine storage accounts the place information was rising quickly and growing prices. With the information of which storage accounts to concentrate on, they have been in a position to determine utilization patterns, roll out optimizations and management their prices.
As quickly as my staff began utilizing Storage Discovery, they have been instantly impressed by the insights it supplied. Their response was, ‘Nice—let’s dive in and see what we are able to uncover.’ In a short time, they recognized a number of storage accounts that have been rising at an uncommon charge. With that visibility, we have been in a position to zero in on these Storage Accounts. We additionally found information that hadn’t been accessed in a very long time, so we applied computerized cleanups utilizing Blob Lifecycle Administration to effectively handle and delete unused information.
—Darren Gipson, Lead DevOps Engineer, Willis Towers Watson
How Storage Discovery works
To get began with Azure Storage Discovery, comply with these two easy steps: first, configure a Discovery workspace which comprises the definition of the useful resource, after which outline the Scopes that symbolize what you are promoting teams or workloads. As soon as these steps are accomplished, Azure Storage Discovery will begin aggregating the related insights and make them obtainable to you in detailed dashboards that may be discovered within the Reviews web page.
Deploying a Discovery workspace allows you to choose which a part of your information property in Azure Blob Storage you wish to analyze. You are able to do this by choosing all of the subscriptions and useful resource teams of curiosity inside your Microsoft Entra tenant. Upon profitable verification of your entry credentials, Azure Storage Discovery will advance to the subsequent step.
As soon as the workspace is configured, you may create as much as 5 scopes, every representing a enterprise group, a workload, or another logical grouping of storage accounts that has enterprise worth to you. This filtering may be carried out by choosing ARM useful resource tags that have been beforehand utilized to your storage accounts.
After the deployment is profitable, Azure Storage Discovery offers stories proper inside the Azure portal with no further setup.
Pricing and availability
Storage Discovery is on the market in choose Azure areas throughout public preview. The service affords a Free pricing plan with insights associated to capability and configurations retained for as much as 15 days and a Normal pricing plan that additionally contains superior insights associated to exercise, errors and safety configurations retained for as much as 18 months to investigate annual tendencies and cycles in what you are promoting workloads. Pricing relies on the variety of storage accounts and objects analyzed, with tiered charges to assist all sizes of information estates in Azure Blob Storage.
The Free and Normal pricing plans might be provided totally free, with no further price till September 30th, 2025. Study extra about pricing within the Azure Storage Discovery documentation.
Get began with Azure Storage Discovery
You will get began utilizing Azure Storage Discovery to unlock the total potential of your storage inside minutes. We invite you to preview Azure Storage Discovery for information administration of your object storage. To get began, confer with the fast begin information to configure your first workspace. To be taught extra, take a look at the documentation.
We’d love to listen to your suggestions. What insights are most useful to you? What would make Storage Discovery extra compelling for what you are promoting? Tell us at StorageDiscoveryFeedback@service.microsoft.com.
