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"Cold storage tier of Azure Storage is a new tier that is available for Azure Storage for data that needs to be persisted for long time with minimum costs. This tier should be used when data is not accessed frequently." The newly introduced access tiers of hot and cold storage are well explained in the two links below. In short: Availability: Hot tier 99.99% (RA-GRS) vs Cold tier only 99.9% Cost: "HOT storage cost of storage is higher than the Cold one (more than double), but in the same time the transaction cost is almost double for Cold storage." Latency: for both tiers milliseconds Sources: (Part 1) Azure Storage - Cold Tier | Things that we should know (Part 2) Azure Storage - Cold Tier | Business use cases where we could use it

I got so used to getting my office eMails on the phone that I did not know at first how to disable the notifications during my upcoming vacation. But the steps are simple and stored here for later reference (to re-enable the notifications). Settings Notifications Mail eMail Account Vibrations