Cutting SharePoint Online Storage Costs by 50-70%

Offload the binary components of documents to Azure Blob Storage, where the expenses amount to less than 5% of the SharePoint Online storage costs.

Why => Storage cost in SharePoint Online is high

When an M365 tenant exhausts the storage allocation provided with the subscription, the expense for additional storage is substantial. Moreover, organizations often must retain numerous files with version history in SharePoint for regulatory or other purposes over many years.

Any subscription includes 1 TB of storage plus an additional 10 GB per user, totaling 2 TB for 100 users, this allocation can quickly deplete in practice.

How => Cloning SharePoint Online documents

By cloning/replacing document library items and relocating the binary components to Azure Blob Storage. The binary components of documents in SharePoint are substituted with small files (<1k) containing references to the content stored in Azure Blob Storage.

Last modified: 6 May 2024