Azure Lifecycle Management - Regions

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I've got an storage account in 'North Europe' and now I want to use the lifecycle management to move the cold blobs to archive tier.

But I everytime I try I get the following failure: Failed to add a lifecycle management rule for storage account 'myStorrageAccount'. Error: ManagementPolicy rule MoveBackupToArchiv is invalid. Invalid value for parameter : baseBlob, tierToArchive is not supported in this region currently.

I checked all my data in the container and every file is on cold storage.

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"Archive is not supported in this region" seems fairly clear, have you checked whether 'North Europe' supports archive tier? – Pete Kirkham
@PeteKirkham...I thought so too. I just checked and archive tier is definitely supported for North Europe: azure.microsoft.com/en-us/global-infrastructure/services/…. – Gaurav Mantri
My guess is that the OP might be using this for an account type which doesn't support lifecycle management or there's an Azure Policy which is preventing that from happening. – Gaurav Mantri
Yes I checked it. @GauravMantri where can I check if my account doesn't support lifecycle management? – bater
Please check the supported account types here: docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/blobs/…. You can check the type of your account in Azure Portal. – Gaurav Mantri

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The lifecycle management feature is available in all Azure regions.

This is a bug in storage management policy.

This will only work in a region that supports Move blob to cool storage, Move blob to archive storage and delete blob. Not all regions support all 3 but attempts to apply them and gets an error back from Azure (correctly). North Europe is the region that has this issue.