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Overview
There are additional costs associated with storing HIPAA data in Azure; primarily due to additional logging.
If you are interested in a HIPAA-approved subscription in UIC's Microsoft Azure environment you should be aware that there are extra security and compliance controls applied to HIPAA subscriptions. A sample list of the controls can be found at Control mapping of the HIPAA HITRUST blueprint sample.
Costs
For a single VM, Technology Solutions estimates an additional cost of around $9 a month in log retention (per VM). This is only an estimate. Microsoft estimates that an average Azure VM creates 1-3 GB of logs a month.
| Resources |
Description |
Cost Per Month |
| Storage Accounts |
Block Blob Storage, General Purpose V2, LRS Redundancy, Hot Access Tier, 50 GB Capacity - Pay as you go, 100,000 Write operations, 100,000 List and Create Container Operations, 100,000 Read operations, 100,000 Archive High Priority Read, 1 Other operations. 1,000 GB Data Retrieval, 1,000 GB Archive High Priority Retrieval, 1,000 GB Data Write |
$2.08 |
| Azure Monitor |
1 VMs monitored, 5 GB average log size, 334 additional days of data retention |
$6.68 |
| VM |
Monthly estimated additional cost |
$8.76 |