Cost Affecting Factors

  • Base Cost
    • Resource Types – All Azure services (resources) have resource-specific pricing models. Typically consisting of one or more metrics.
    • Services – Azure specific offers (Enterprise, Web Direct, CSP, etc.) have different cost and billing components like prepaids, billing cycles, - discounts, etc.
    • Location – running Azure services vary between Azure regions
    • Bandwidth – network traffic when uploading (inbound/ingress) data to Azure or downloading (outbound/egress) from Azure
  • Savings
    • Reserved Instances
    • Hybrid Benefits
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I've spent most of my career working with software and cloud technologies, but at heart I'm simply someone who loves learning new things and sharing what I discover. Through this blog and my Azure 4 Everyone YouTube channel, I try to make Azure and cloud computing more approachable for developers, architects, and anyone curious about technology.

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