Are throttled requests billable?

Question

Hi,

I wanted to know if my requests to Azure storage services are being throttled or not; if yes, are they billable?

This link says:

"Throttling – These are requests that are being throttled due to the transaction rate going over the per partition target throughput described in the post “Windows Azure Storage Abstractions and their Scalability Targets”. These throttled requests are counted as billable transactions"

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazurestorage/archive/2010/07/09/understanding-windows-azure-storage-billing-bandwidth-transactions-and-capacity.aspx

However, as per the below msdn link, requests that resulted in ThrottlingError are NOT billable.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/hh343260.aspx

Are these not referring to the same thing? If yes, let me know which one is correct. 

Thanks,

Padmaja

Answer 1

Hi,

You are comparing 2 different things. The first link is about Windows Azure Storage while the second link talks about Windows Azure Storage Analytics. I'm assuming both links are correct for the part they're representing.

Sandrino

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Answer 2

Hi,

Storage analytics data provides information on the storage requests. And the explanation for ThrottlingError is given as "Authenticated request that returned an HTTP 503 status code". When requests are throttled then also 503 status code is returned, right? I think both links talk about the same thing

Thanks,

Padmaja

Answer 3

Hi,

For billing questions,

I would like to suggest you to contact our customer support on

https://support.microsoft.com/oas/default.aspx?prid=14234&st=1&wfxredirect=1&sd=gn.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 4

The way I read that, a throttling error is not the same thing as successfully completed requests that are throttled. A throttling error means the request failed.

I doubt very much that successful requests would not be billed, even if they're throttled.

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