I signed up for the Azure for Students subscription and it said that there would be 250 GB of free SQL databases, but I don't see a free tier when I am creating one (both vCore and DTU use up the credits over time). Where can I create a free SQL database?
Additionally, the Azure for Students site says that
"Certain types and amounts of these services are free each month – while you have your credit.
Does it apply to SQL databases? Do I have access to 250 GB of databases for the entire 12 months?
Free SQL database tier is S0 (10 DTU), you can find it in standard section.
Click on configure database option. Select the Standard from Service tier drop down option as shown below. Click on Apply.
Yes, as long as you use S0 (10 DTU) tier, 250 GB will be free for 12 months. If you upgrade to any other tier, you will be charged from $100 credit.
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This is a question on the pricing model of the azure synapse, how it works, and understanding the cost accrued/accumulated for developers who are doing self-study and exploring/learning the services.
For the same purpose, I purchased a pay-as-you-go service. The first question is -Is it the right scope/subscription for individuals who want to do practice or hands-on with Azure services?
Last Sunday i.e. 19 July 2020 (4 days ago) I provisioned 2 services (SQL server and Synapse SQL pool (data warehouse)).
Synapse SQL pool was set to 100 DWU and the service was immediately paused after creating it.
As per the billing I was expecting only to be charged 1.510 (since I had stopped the service and billing rate of 100 DWU is 1.510 per hour)
However on seeing today, i.e. 4 days since the services were provisioned I am seeing my accumulated charges to be 20.15 .
Does anyone know how this works out to be?
I have raised an SR for this and awaiting a response from Microsoft.
Appreciate it if anyone could give me some leads.
Regards
Lokesh
Did your bill include storage or was the $20 from compute alone? It would be reasonable for Synapse Data warehouse compute+storage: for 1 hour of DWU100 compute and 4 days of 1TB storage in central US region (1h * $1.51 + 4 * 24h * $0.19 = 1.51+18.24=$19.75).
The storage in ”old” Azure Data Warehouse comes with 1TB slots so you will be billed for 1TB even if you don’t use that all. With new Synapse on-demand you can use Azure Data Lake as your storage and it is billed by the actual usage.
So I've been getting my feet wet in Azure SQL databases, and one of the question that I can't quite figure out is whether Azure charges per SQL developer on top of the database costs. If there's a team of 5 DB administrators, are they all allowed to build tables/extract data as long as the SQL database pool is being paid for?
It's just confusing because the price is a lot lower than what I'd expect, and I want to make sure I'm not missing any gotcha's that could multiply the cost. How is it possible it's only $606/month for 400 databases with 1TB of total storage?? Am I missing something super obvious??
Seems like we can just add DBA groups to a DB resource group
Pricing calculator for an elastic SQL database pool for 1TB for $606
Also... some additional assumptions and questions (sorry):
-Azure DB bills ONLY on the transactions and storage used in the database
-Elastic pool DB allows for hundreds of DBs to be created for near-zero cost, so does that include backup DBs (Proof of concept/Test/Support DBs)?
How is it possible it's only $606/month for 400 databases with 1TB of total storage??
Under the vCore pricing model that will buy you only a few cores, and a limited amount of RAM. See Resource limits for elastic pools using the vCore-based purchasing model limits for the details. So your 400 databases are sharing a small pool of resources. You may need to scale up the pool based on your workload.
In the General Purpose tier your database files are stored on Azure premium storage, and 1TB of Premium SSD storage costs only $135/month.
Azure DB bills ONLY on the transactions and storage used in the database
Under DTU and VCore models there is no charge for transactions. You've paid for the capacity and may do what you want. Backup storage is extra. See the pricing calculator for details. There are no "charges per SQL developer on top of the database costs".
The price of an elastic pool is based on the number of eDTUs of the pool, if you choose the DTU pricing model. The price of an elastic pool is independent of the number and utilization of the elastic databases within it, the number of transactions, the storage consumed and is also independent of the developers or users using those databases.
If you choose the vCore pricing model, pricing is based on the number of virtual cores, the compute generation you choose (Gen4/Gen5), licensing cost and the storage used by the databases and backups. You can save money if you apply for the Azure Hybrid Benefit or apply to reserve licensing. Again pricing is independent of the number of databases, number of transactions or users using it.
Need help on below points:
Data out limit for free tier is 165 MB. How is data out usage calculated?
I am using a free tier subscription type. Why does Memory usage increase as soon as memory resets after 1 hour? Why does my application take 230-240 MB of memory initially?
I have a free tier account with credit amount xxx Rs. Can I use the free tier amount for another subscription like basic or standard?
Are there any data out and memory usage limit for other subscriptions like basic/Premium/standard?
Outgoing traffic
Its the memory taken by the IIS instance, thats expected in Azure
I don't understand, but you can use money from your subscription and you cannot use Tiers together, so pay for a free tier, but get all the benefits of a Premium Tier.
You can take a look at the limits on the pricing page.
recently we had deployed one application in Azure. For that we choose Virtual Machine(Standard DS2 v2 (2 cores, 7 GB memory)), and SQL Server Standard.But when I look into Billing, I found that premium storage page blob/30 burns higher than Computer Pricing. How can I cut price on this.:
As the Pricing for Azure Disks Storage mentioned that Premium Disks would be charged basing on the three disk sizes: P10, P20, P30. Based on the Premium Disk size your chose, you would be charged at $135.17 per month. If you leverage Premium Storage snapshots to backup data, then there is an additional billing at $0.132/GB per month.
For more details about your billing, you could log in to account.windowsazure.com, click Download Usage Details to download the spreadsheet for your billing. You could follow tutorial and tutorial to understand your Azure Costing. If you couldn't get any helpful info, please try to contact support for locating your issue to reduce your cost.
I did a lot of searching but I guess Windows Azure's trial offers are constantly changing and there is a lot of different information over the internet. I am looking to develop a small website for learning purposes using Azure. My questions are:
1) Are there still 10 free websites after my 30-day trial ends?
If yes,
2) Can I use Table/Blob store after the trial period?
3) Can I use Azure SQL instance after the trial period?
From the horses mouth, so to speak:
Web Sites Pricing Details
You can run up to 10 websites for Free in a shared environment.
Azure Table Storage will cost, but it's not all that much. Storage Pricing Details gives you a run down, but I find their Pricing Calculator to be quite useful.
As an example:
100GB of blob storage
100GB of tables and queues
10 million transactions per month
is a grand total of $9.90 USD per month.