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Plan and manage your azure costs
(1)
What's the TCO Calculator?
The TCO Calculator helps you estimate the cost savings of operating your solution on Azure over time, instead of in your on-premises datacenter.
These costs include electricity, network maintenance, and IT labor.
How does the TCO Calculator work?
Adjust assumptions
Electricity price per kilowatt hour (KWh).
Hourly pay rate for IT administration.
Network maintenance cost as a percentage of network hardware and software costs.
you specify whether your current on-premises licenses are enrolled for Software Assurance , which can save you money by reusing those licenses on Azure.
View report
Define your workloads
Servers
This category includes operating systems, virtualization methods, CPU cores, and memory (RAM).
Databases
This category includes database types, server hardware, and the Azure service you want to use, which includes the expected maximum concurrent user sign-ins.
Storage
This category includes storage type and capacity, which includes any backup or archive storage.
Networking
This category includes the amount of network bandwidth you currently consume in your on-premises environment.
Purchase Azure services
Subscriptions
Free trial
A free trial subscription provides you with
12 months
of popular free services
, a credit to explore any Azure service for 30 days, and more than 25 services that are always free.
Your Azure services are disabled when the trial ends or when your credit expires for paid products, unless you upgrade to a paid subscription.
Pay-as-you-go
A pay-as-you-go subscription enables you to pay for what you use by attaching a credit or debit card to your account. Organizations can apply for volume discounts and prepaid invoicing.
Member offers
Your existing membership to certain Microsoft products and services might provide you with credits for your Azure account and reduced rates on Azure services. For example, member offers are available to Visual Studio subscribers, Microsoft Partner Network members, Microsoft for Startups members, and Microsoft Imagine members.
How do I purchase Azure services?
Through an Enterprise Agreement
Larger customers, known as enterprise customers, can sign an Enterprise Agreement with Microsoft. This agreement commits them to spending a
predetermined amount on Azure services
o
ver a period of three years.
The service fee is typically paid
annually
. As an Enterprise Agreement customer, you'll receive the best customized pricing based on the kinds and amounts of services you plan on using.
Directly from the web
Through a Cloud Solution Provider
What factors affect cost?
Resource type
A number of factors influence the cost Azure resources. They depend on the type of resource or how you customize it.
For example, with a storage account you specify a type (such as block blob storage or table storage), a performance tier (standard or premium), and an access tier (hot, cool, or archive). These selections present different costs.
Usage meters
Let's look at a single VM as an example. The following kinds of meters are relevant to tracking its usage:
Overall CPU time.
Time spent with a public IP address.
Incoming (ingress) and outgoing (egress) network traffic in and out of the VM.
Disk size and amount of disk read and disk write operations.
Resource usage
Deallocating a VM means that the VM is no longer running. But the associated hard disks and data are still kept in Azure.
Location affect cost
How can I estimate the total cost?
Pricing calculator
Region
Tier
Billing options
Support options
Programs and offers
Azure Dev/Test pricing
Exercise - Estimate workload cost by using the Pricing calculator
You can estimate an scenario
Manage and minimize total cost on Azure
Understand estimated costs before you deploy
Use Azure Advisor to monitor your usage
Use spending limits to restrict your spending
Use Azure
Reservations to prepay
Azure Reservations can save you up to 72 percent as compared to pay-as-you-go prices.
Choose low-cost
locations and regions
But remember, some resources are metered and billed according to how much outgoing (egress) network bandwidth they consume
Research available cost-saving
offers
Use Azure Cost Management
Billing to control spending
Monitor and report your expenses, budget etc
Apply tags to identify cost owners
Resize underutilized virtual machines
Deallocate virtual machines during off hours
Delete unused resources
Migrate from IaaS to PaaS services
Save on licensing costs
Choose cost-effective operating systems
Use Azure Hybrid Benefit to repurpose software licenses on Azure
If you've purchased licenses for Windows Server or SQL Server, and your licenses are covered by Software Assurance , you might be able to repurpose those licenses on VMs on Azure.