Pricing Tools
- Pricing Calculator: estimate costs for Azure services before deploying.
- TCO Calculator: compare on-premises costs with Azure cloud costs.
- Cost Management + Billing: monitor, allocate, and optimize cloud spending.
- Azure Advisor: provides cost recommendations based on your usage.
Cost Factors
- Resource type, usage quantity, and region affect pricing.
- Bandwidth: inbound data is free; outbound data is charged.
- Reserved Instances and Savings Plans reduce costs with commitment.
- Azure Hybrid Benefit lets you reuse on-premises licenses.
- Dev/Test pricing offers discounts for non-production workloads.
SLAs
- SLAs define uptime commitments as percentages (e.g., 99.9%).
- Composite SLA = multiply individual SLAs of dependent services.
- Higher redundancy increases composite SLA but adds cost.
- Preview services do not have SLA guarantees.
Practice Cost Management Questions
Put your knowledge to the test with practice questions.