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?
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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.
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My azure subscription costs mention some free allowance my FormRecognizer resource (pricing tier S0)
I obviously won't complain about it (if it's true) but the pricing page is not really explicit about this free allowance mechanism :
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/form-recognizer/
Now I haven't been able to find the answer on the doc but if I have two distinct FormRecognizer (pricing tier S0) resources. Does it meen that I get 500 free pages per month per FormRecognizer resource or is it a global allowance ?
#silent , you're absolutely right.
Here's MSFT answer :
Based on the Free Azure Services offer, the Form Recogniser includes 500 pages S0 tier total monthly allowance for all resources used/created. This means that if you have two form of recognized resource, your allowance will be 250 pages S0 tier for each of them.
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.
Will I be charged if I host my application on Azure App Service more than 60 min even if my app does not do any processing?
The answer is NO.
Under App Service -> App Service Plan -> Quotas you can see a detailed breakdown of usage such as an example below for a website I created hours ago but showing only 1.11 minutes of usage:
I got the answer from AjayKumar-MSFT's answer from this post at a Microsoft forum, then proceeded to test it myself.
You could go serverless with Azure Functions, host in a Consumption plan and only pay for execution time. It's a bit more complicated than that but in essence you don't pay for idle code, which i believe is what you're after.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/functions/
Functions are billed based on observed resource consumption measured in gigabyte seconds (GB-s). Observed resource consumption is calculated by multiplying average memory size in gigabytes by the time in milliseconds it takes to execute the function. Memory used by a function is measured by rounding up to the nearest 128 MB, up to the maximum memory size of 1,536 MB, with execution time calculated by rounding up to the nearest 1 ms. The minimum execution time and memory for a single function execution is 100 ms and 128 mb respectively. Functions pricing includes a monthly free grant of 400,000 GB-s.
A very detailed example is found under that URL.
My answer is NO. if CPU time exceeds no charge will cost rather site will be stopped and it will be working after a certain time next day. Under App Service -> App Service Plan -> Quotas you can get details of CPU time and memory. It is clearly mentioned in Quotas that Applications hosted in a free or shared App Service plan are subject to usage quotas. If any quota is exceeded the site will be stopped until that quota resets. You can remove quotas on your app by scaling up your App Service Plan.
The costs depend on the pricing plan you choose for your app. There are several plans available to choose from. You could choose the Free plan and you won't incur costs but this plan is mostly meant for experimenting with the platform. It doesn't provide any SLA.
You can find more details about the pricing at the following links
App Service pricing
App Service Plans
And yes, your app will incur costs even if it is not consuming any CPU since it is allocated resource (a VM) and is running.
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 already asked my question here in the comments, but I didn't received an answer - maybe because this blog is old & not many read it.
We have a Visual Studio Premium with MSDN - subscription.
Can someone answer?
Edit:
The actual question:
Is limit = fixed billing? I have a limit of 350 cores: Is there a difference in billing if I use 1 core or 350 cores?
Question 2: Why is in the limit overview no WebApp or SQL DB limit? Can I create unlimited amount of it? But then I have to pay for each one I create?
Is limit = fixed billing?
No, limit is not equal to fixed billing. Billing is based on the consumption while the limit defines the quota.
To take your example, you have a limit of 350 cores. What that means is that you can consume up to 350 cores in your subscription. You will be billed for the number of cores you consume (e.g. if you consume 10 cores, you will be billed for 10 cores only).
When it comes to limits, there are soft limits and there are hard limits. Soft limits are the default limits on your subscription when you sign up for an Azure Subscription. You can get the soft limits increased by contacting support. Hard limits are the limits in your Azure Subscription that you can't exceed. For example, currently there's a hard limit of 100 storage accounts per subscription. You can't go beyond those 100 storage accounts. If you need more storage accounts, then you would have to purchase a new subscription.