Azure Pricing Calculator
Explore how to configure the Azure Pricing Calculator to estimate monthly costs for your cloud infrastructure. Understand key steps like selecting regions, tiers, support options, and savings such as reserved instances and Hybrid Benefit. This lesson helps you plan and optimize Azure expenses effectively.
Let’s look at the Azure Pricing calculator.
It’s a web-based calculator that helps us estimate our monthly costs and detailed insights on Azure once the entire infrastructure is set up.
Calculating costs in the TCO Calculator was a three-step process. Similarly, Azure Pricing calculator also follows three steps:
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Configuration: This step requires configuring the hardware, storage, databases, etc. It has three further subcomponents where the costs may vary:
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Region: This specifies the region for the resource.
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Tier: This specifies the pricing tier of the given resource.
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Savings option: This specifies the saving options such as pay-as-you-go or reserve instances depending upon different choices.
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Support: It supports different tier options, and the prices associated with them are offered by Microsoft.
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Programmes and offers: It gives the option to select infrastructure on the dev/test pricing.
Benefits of Azure Pricing Calculator
Azure Pricing calculator offers several benefits:
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It’s a web-based tool and is really easy to use. ...