Azure Notification hub free tier has 1million pushes per subscription.
My question is are 1 million pushes per month?
According to the pricing,
Free - get up to 1 million pushes per subscription a month.
Basic - get 10 million pushes per subscription a month as a baseline, with quota growth options.
Standard - get 10 million pushes per subscription a month as a baseline, with quota increase options, plus rich telemetry capabilties
All of the prices listed on this page are monthly: Notification Hub Pricing
So as of the time of writing you are correct, the 1 million pushes are evaluated monthly by subscription.
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I am using Azure Pay As You Go subscription. I wanted to create Azure IOT hub with S1:Stander Tier. Cost per month is :1652.41 INR. If I use it for 8 hrs for trying some example and delete the that create IOT hub, will it charge 1652.41 INR Or hourly or daily basis?
This is answered in the FAQ at https://azure.microsoft.com/en-au/pricing/details/iot-hub/
The relevant section for these standing charges are:
How does billing work for the IoT Hub service?
The consumption of IoT Hub units is measured on a daily basis, and the billing is generated on a monthly basis. Customers are billed based on the number of IoT Hub units that have been consumed during the month.
Is the billing prorated if I purchase an additional IoT Hub unit mid-month?
You can choose to increase the number of IoT Hub units purchased at any time. If you sign up for the service mid-month, your monthly bill will be pro-rated based on the number of days remaining in the month. (For the purpose of the IoT Hub service, a month is defined as 31 days). If you increase the number of units of IoT Hub mid-month, your monthly bill will be based on the number of units available for each day during the month.
So for your example of 8 hours use in a single day will be measured as the monthly rate divided by 31.
How are Streaming Units is being charged; per day or per month?
Media Services pricing page shows:
~ $4.48/day ($139/mo)
Billing is prorated daily based on 31 days per month.
while pricing calculator page is based on only per month calculation.
Thanks.
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It's prorated daily. So as soon as you turn it on, you are charged for the first day. The pricing calculator is only showing the monthly fee and not allowing you set it by day.
I have sign up in Azure Free Trail set up 2 Azure Database in 2 Different Region and Sync them using azure Data Sync Portal it's works pretty well, but my question is that how to reduce SYNC FREQUENCY.
because azure gives minimum time is 5 minute for automated Sync. but i want this time around 30 sec to 1 minute because my website is of online selling product ( Shopping ) so that i want fast sync
So is there anyway to workaround this situation ?
5 mins is the lowest interval you can set it to. likewise, the service is never meant for a near-realtime replication.
I have a question about Azure Notification Hub Billing (Prices here)
If I send a 1 message that fans out to (say) 10 client devices is that billed as 1 message or 10?
This kind of implies that that it would be 10 but it's a little unclear
Pushes include all notifications delivered to the platform
notification services (e.g. Windows Notification Service, Apple Push
Notification Service, Google Cloud Messaging, Microsoft Push
Notification Service). Push allowance is prorated and capped on a
daily basis.
(Hope this is an ok place to ask this, there are a few Azure billing questions and none seem to have been closed so I'm assuming this is accepted)
You would pay a flat fee of $22 (USD) per Unit for that example.
You are charged per "unit" where a unit on "Basic" (for example) includes:
unlimited device registrations
up to 500,000 pushes per month (or 16,667 per day)
If you publish 1 message that fans out to 10 devices you have generated 10 pushes. If you did not exceed the 16,667 messages in a day you'd pay $22 for a single unit.
If you need more than that you would need to scale the number of units (maximum of 9 for Basic / unlimited for Standard) to allow you to meet your demand.
Easiest way to perceive this is by considering total devices that have been reached out to using Notifications Hub; irrespective of the platforms being pushed on.
Example: 5-Android, 2-Windows, 1-iOS = 8 pushes!
I've been evaluating options for sending mobile push notifications and looked at pricing of Microsoft's vs Amazon's hub offerings. I think I must have miss-calculated since the Microsoft offer is coming out 20 times the cost! Can someone please point out where I went wrong?
The Microsoft pricing is based on a 12 month plan, giving a unit cost of £3.29 per day. Each unit can sent 166,667 messages and I need to send 1.8m per day (roughly 54m per month).
I'll say upfront that I am inherently biased, since I work on Azure.
But these are significantly different services.
Amazon SNS primary scenario is push to individual devices, or small groups of devices. You need to maintain the endpoints, and pre-create topics. You can do multicast with topics, but a topic afaik cannot have more than 10K devices, so you can only multicast to 10K users at a time.
Notification Hubs offers you segmented/personalized push engagement for millions of users. You can broadcast to unlimited # of devices with a single API call, you can manage segments/target arbitrary segment expressions, personalize/localize your pushes using templates, etc.
If you don't need any of the extra features Notification Hubs offers, and just need a simple push to individual devices, Azure pricing page advises contacting mobileservices#microsoft.com for low price offering for high volume individual push scenarios.
Quick update to my previous answer. Starting September, Azure Notification Hubs offers more flexible (and much cheaper) pricing with three tiers:
1) Free tier - up to 1M push notifications monthly for free
2) Basic tier - basic push notifications at $1 per million pushes.
3) Standard tier - rich push notification capabilities (large scale instant broadcasts, dynamic segments, rich telemetry, etc) at $2.5 - $20 per million pushes depending on the volume.
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/notification-hubs/