Currently, I am working on establishing enterprise-scale landing zones for Cloud Adoption Framework in Azure.
I understand that inventory of the existing on premises applications and infrastructure is must to prepare the good landing page architecture.
How do I gather the inventory, is there any tools to do this? What and all should I include in the inventory?
For me i think you should use Microsoft Azure Advisor to give you an advice of the cloud infra you would need and Azure TCO to calculate the difference of the on premises and cloud infra or the Azure calculator to calculate the cloud infra price
Microsoft Azure Advisor: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/advisor/
Azure TCO: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/tco/calculator/
Azure Calculator: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/
Also i advice you to look for the long time booking 3/5 years; like that you will gain a reduction of nearly 70% of the total price
Hope that my answer helped you and wish that you would vote me up if it did :D thanks alot in advance ....
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I am currently using the 30 days free subscription on azure. I have a python web app and azure cosmos mongodb. My free subscrption is about to end and I am planning to upgrade it. But I am not aware of how much monthly bill will be.?
Is there any way I can get approx idea of monthly bill on azure. Thanks
You can use the Cost Management service to determine your monthly cost. Also if you are aware of the resources you will be using calculate the estimation using the Azure calculator
I have a requirement to move my onprimises azure vms to cloud for only DR.
My current VM has 2012 Server with few applications installed with some critical Roles and the full size of VM is 1TB.
I need your help what are the charges applies and what are the things I should consider for my migration. We just opened a account with Microsoft on Azure nothing is configured and would like to understand the charges that i need to consider for this migration and components that are involved in this task.
Looking for Price calculations and components that are involved for Cost considerations
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I have an Azure Cloud Service published at Microsoft and it's draining all my credit!
Payment
Pay as you go
Service resource
Minimal resource, 1 SMALL web role and 1 SMALL worker role.
I knew Azure wasn't cheap, but this is just too much. Currently my monthly cost is just under 80 USD. The only person that use this service is me, noone else, and I barely use it. So the cost is just for the upkeep.
Is this normal?
70 bucks a month!?
How much does it cost for YOU?
What Microsoft support told me
I am afraid the Cloud Services has a fixed price, and I am not aware
how it could be lowered. Maybe you want to check on how the service
itself could be tweaked to get it working as per your needs. You may
want to go through the Community Forum for that.
Community = Stackoverflow, so here I am!
If I look at my Azure subscription page I can see that it's the:
CALCULATING HOURS - Europe, Western
That is taking all my hard earned money. My service also uses SQL, storage and cache but, if I understand it correctly, these are not the cause for my expensive bill.
Before I leave you to it I just want to say that I can't use a simple web app because of my requirements. I know web apps are super cheap, but in this case I must use a cloud service..
Thank you
Update
I found out I was using A1 (small) and not A0 (extra small). The instance type for a cloudservice can be set in the servicedefinition file.
It's sad that not even Microsoft themselves could inform me about this.
Web and worker roles are like dedicated VMs if they are on, they will cost you money.
You can do one of two things
1) Stop the machines when no one is using them ( say in the off business hours). I am not sure if this is possible to do or not in your case. But if it is possible, you can run a small script to start/ stop the roles. You can even do so via apps on your phone. For example - https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/azure-management/id826446897?mt=8
2) Move to Azure Web Apps and Azure Web Jobs - Both these services are "multi-tenant" and cost much less and in fact offer a free tier. If and when you need to scale, you can always scale as your need
Hope this helps
Is there a public api for getting pricing lists of Rackspace and Microsoft Azure in JSON format?
Have been searching for that but could not find any information.
Thank you in advance.
For Rackspace, there is not a public API for getting pricing lists in JSON format. You can find a list of the prices for Cloud Servers here if you scroll down to the "pricing" section: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/servers
You can select a class of OS, service level, and whether you want the prices to be displayed hourly or monthly. Rackspace doesn't offer cloud servers without a support plan, so you'll need to factor that into your calculations. With the DevOps support plan, you'll need to factor in the volume discount for large numbers of servers.
There's also a price calculator here: http://www.rackspace.com/calculator
(Disclaimer: I work at Rackspace.)
For Azure, this may help.
I was looking for the same thing and stumble upon this post on stack overflow: Azure pricing calculator api. I was able to generate JSON string using this git hub repo: https://github.com/Azure-Samples/billing-dotnet-ratecard-api.
Hope this helps!
I am using a normal IIS web host to host my website and web services.. It is just a hobby and I get very little traffic. I would let to be using Azure instead since I would like an excuse to learn azure.
Is anyone out there using Azure in this way and can tell me about what is thier monthly cost? I long ago subscribed to azure and forgot about it and a month later had a $90 bill so that really scares me.
Right now my web host + sql is about $25 a month.
Is there a way to have azure shut the service off if it gets over a certain monthly cost?
Well, even a very small instance costs $0.05/hour, and the SLA is only guaranteed if you run two or more instances. That in itself adds up to approximately $75/month.
SQL Azure is at least $9.99/month. Add to this charges for traffic, etc.
There are reasons why the SQL Azure pricing model is like this. You do get your very own virtual machine instances with dedicated RAM, which you typically don't get in a web hotel, so taking that into account, the Azure price may be reasonable, but isn't very competitive for very small hobby sites.
The official price list is here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/pricing/
Unfortunately, Azure is not designed to host hobbyist sites. You won't be able to beat $25 a month, but then you don't need things like SLA's and HA databass. But, as I commented earlier, it is nice to be able to work with it to train up on the platform.
There are ways of getting onto Azure cheaply.
Firstly There is the free introductory offer. Very much a "toe in the water" just to play/learn the platform. There aren't enough compute hours to host a site.
Secondly, if you're prepared to put in a little effort you can join either the partner or Bizspark programs which will give you access to enough resources to host a site for free, but there is an expectation that you're trying to build "something".
Oh, and for a hobbyist site you don't need the SLA so a single instance is fine.