Data Box for export not available

Ulf Brehmer 0

Hmm, I want to export somewhere around 50TB of data from one of our StorageV2 blob storage containers to a customer's on-prem site in Denmark. I thought I could create a Data Box for export but it appers it is not available for my subscription. What are my options?

Syed Aaqid Ali 180 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2025-02-20T18:34:54.7566667+00:00
Hi Ulf Brehmer,

Greetings & Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum! Thanks for posting your query!

To export data out of Azure into your location the subscription to use for Data Box service must be of the following types, Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA) EA subscriptions, Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) Azure CSP program, Microsoft Azure Sponsorship Azure sponsorship program.

However, to export data from your Blob storage account to a on-premises site, since Data Box for export is not available for your subscription, you have a few alternative options:

Azure Data Factory: You can use Azure Data Factory to copy data from your Azure Storage account to an on-premises location. It supports various data sources and destinations, including Azure Blob Storage and on-premises locations.

AzCopy: Another option is to use AzCopy, a command-line utility provided by Microsoft, to copy the data from your Azure Storage account to an on-premises location. It supports high-performance transfers and can handle large amounts of data efficiently.

References:

Prerequisites for Azure Data Box to export data from Azure
Azure Storage migration

Use cases for AzCopy

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Abiola Akinbade 23,440 Reputation points

2025-02-21T03:44:31.2566667+00:00

Hello Ulf Brehmer,

Thanks for your question

Data Box is only available for Enterprise Agreement (EA) and Cloud solution provider (CSP) subscription offers. If you don't have either of these subscription types, you can contact Microsoft Support to upgrade your subscription. See: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/databox/data-box-faq?tabs=data-box-and-data-box-heavy#order-device-

You might also want to check with Azure Support go see specific options for this. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/support/create-ticket

See alternative options as well here:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/common/storage-solution-large-dataset-low-network

You can Use Azure Import/Export service by shipping your own disk drives to securely import large amounts of data to Azure Blob storage and Azure Files.

You can mark it 'Accept Answer' and 'Upvote' if this helped you

Regards,

Abiola
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Ulf Brehmer 0 Reputation points

2025-02-21T14:44:56.5466667+00:00

So I am now looking at Azure Export service. But I am a little bit worried about costs. So to export 50TB Cool tier data from a StandardV2 flat namespace blob storage container, where most files are 32 MB in size, I am calculating the following:

Read operations: $0.01 / 10000 * (50 * 1000000 MB / 32 MB) = $15

Data retrieval: $0.01 / GB * 50 * 1000 GB = $500

Disk handling: 4 disks * $80 = $320

Shipping: <unknown>

I assume there is no cost for egress since you don't have to transfer data over datacenter the network gateway.

Please check and confirm or correct me.

Thanks,

/Ulf
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