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Whether you're shaping cloud strategy or safeguarding data, Azure Storage Discovery gives you instant clarity on your Blob Storage estate.
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From architecture to governance, it delivers fast answers that help you take control of your Azure data landscape.
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- Measure how much data is stored across all storage accounts.
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- Identify regions experiencing the highest growth.
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- Find opportunities to reduce costs by locating infrequently used data.
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- Assess whether storage configurations align with security and compliance best practices.
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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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<!--- How much data do we store across all our storage accounts?
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- What are the regions with the highest growth?
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- Can I reduce our costs by finding data that isn't being frequently used?
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- Are our storage configurations aligned with security and compliance best practices?
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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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## Gain advanced storage insights
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Track how your Azure Blob Storage estate is evolving and uncover hidden opportunities to reduce costs, boost performance, and tighten security. Azure Storage Discovery reveals underused data, throttling risks, and ways to optimize spend—so you can manage smarter and scale confidently.
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Track how your Azure Blob Storage estate is evolving and uncover hidden opportunities to reduce costs, boost performance, and tighten security. Azure Storage Discovery reveals underused data, throttling risks, and ways to optimize spending.
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These insights are powered by metrics related to storage capacity (object size and object count), activity on the data estate (transactions, ingress, egress), aggregation of transaction errors and detailed configurations for data protection, cost optimization, and security.
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<!-- Analyze how the data estate in Azure Blob Storage is growing, identify opportunities for cost optimization, discover data that is under-utilized, pinpoint workloads that could be getting throttled and find ways to strengthen the security of your storage accounts. These insights are powered by metrics related to storage capacity (object size and object count), activity on the data estate (transactions, ingress, egress), aggregation of transaction errors and detailed configurations for data protection, cost optimization and security. -->
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### Interactive reports
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Your Discovery resource in the Azure Portal offers intuitive reports that reveal trends, highlight top storage accounts, and link directly to the resources behind each chart. Quickly spot patterns, surface key accounts, and jump straight to the data—all from your Discovery dashboard in Azure.
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Your Discovery resource in the Azure portal offers intuitive reports that reveal trends, highlight top storage accounts, and link directly to the resources behind each chart. Quickly spot patterns, surface key accounts, and jump straight to the data—all from your Discovery dashboard in Azure.
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Filter reports by region, redundancy, performance, encryption, and more to focus on the most relevant parts of your data estate.
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<!-- Your Discovery resource in the Azure Portal features several reports that make it simple to analyze trends over time, drill into top storage accounts, and instantly navigate to the specific resources represented in each chart. The reports can be filtered to focus on specific parts of the data estate based on Storage account configurations like Regions, Redundancy, Performance type, Encryption type, and others. -->
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<!-- Your Discovery resource in the Azure portal features several reports that make it simple to analyze trends over time, drill into top storage accounts, and instantly navigate to the specific resources represented in each chart. The reports can be filtered to focus on specific parts of the data estate based on Storage account configurations like Regions, Redundancy, Performance type, Encryption type, and others. -->
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### Organization-wide visibility
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Your Azure Storage resources (like storage accounts) experience no transactions or performance impact when analyzing them with Azure Storage Discovery.
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**History provided right from the start**
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Up to 30 days of historical data will be added automatically, once you deploy a Discovery workspace. All insights are retained for up to 18 months. History and retention depend on the [pricing plan](pricing.md) you choose.
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Up to 30 days of historical data is added automatically, once you deploy a Discovery workspace. All insights are retained for up to 18 months. History and retention depend on the [pricing plan](pricing.md) you choose.
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**Free and paid pricing plans**
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Azure Storage Discovery offers free and paid pricing plans for each workspace. The [pricing article](pricing.md) describes the differences and explains what influences the bill when choosing a paid option.
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