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# What is Azure Storage Discovery?
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**Azure Storage Discovery** is a fully managed Azure service that provides deep, actionable insights into your object storage estate across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups. Its design simplifies data management at scale by offering a unified, no-code experience for analyzing storage usage, activity, configuration, and security posture—all from a single pane of glass in the Azure portal.
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**Azure Storage Discovery** is a fully managed service that provides enterprise-wide visibility into your Azure Blob Storage data estate. In a single pane of glass you can understand and analyze how your data estate has evolved over time, optimize costs, enhance security, and drive operational efficiency.
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Azure Storage Discovery integrates with Copilot in Azure, enabling you to unlock insights and accelerate decision-making without utilizing any query language.
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Whether you're a cloud architect, storage administrator, or data governance lead, Azure Storage Discovery helps you quickly answer key questions about your enterprise data estate in Azure Blob Storage:
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- How much data do we store across all our storage accounts?
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- Which regions are experiencing the highest growth?
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- Can I reduce our costs by finding data that is not being frequently used?
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- Are our storage configurations aligned with security and compliance best practices?
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:::image type="content" source="media/overview/overview-copilot-small.png" alt-text="Azure portal sowing a Discovery report and copilot chat window." lightbox="media/overview/overview-copilot-big.png":::
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is a fully managed Azure service that provides deep, actionable insights into your object storage estate across subscriptions, regions, and resource groups. Its design simplifies data management at scale by offering a unified, no-code experience for analyzing storage usage, activity, configuration, and security posture—all from a single pane of glass in the Azure portal.
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With just a few clicks, users can answer critical questions such as:
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- How much data do I have across all my storage accounts?
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- Which regions or workloads are growing fastest?
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- Where can I reduce costs by adjusting access tiers or deleting stale data?
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- Are my storage configurations aligned with security and compliance best practices?
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## From insight to action with Azure Storage Discovery
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Azure Storage Discovery simplifies the process of uncovering and analyzing insights from thousands of storage accounts, transforming complexity into clarity with just a few clicks.
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Use the Discovery reports or engage Copilot to mine for actionable insights. For instance, focus on security, or cost relevant insights first.
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Every chart in the Discovery reports can be translated into a list of the storage resources behind it.
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You can review the list of resources and directly navigate to a resource for a configuration change. Alternatively, you can save the resource list as a *\*.csv* file and use it for bulk operations, like in scripts or terraform.
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Use this clarity to mine for actionable insights - then list the storage resources you've identified that can save money, improve security, or optimize your Storage estate across
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## How do I use Storage Discovery?
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Azure Storage Discovery can be used to gain insights across multiple dimensions. The following use cases illustrate how users frequently leverage the service:
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