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.
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I need to calculate the cost of the Azure Synapse Analytics. I have used the Azure Pricing Calculator but I could not figure it out. It shows close to USD 2,100.
I have the following components as a part of the Azure Synapse Analytics
Synapse workspace
Self Hosted agent - Standard_B2s
Synapse SQL pool
How do I calculate the cost of Azure Synapse Analytics?
This is a very difficult question to answer, because most of the costs are consumption/runtime oriented.
The pricing calculator defaults are not great, so you'll really want to fine tune it. For instance, you cannot remove Dedicated Pools, but you can set the Hours to 0. It also includes Data Explorer, which cannot be removed. To not include these prices in the calculator, deselect the "Auto select engine instances", and under both Engine V-Cores and Data Management V-Cores, set the hours to 0.
The calculator will NOT include any time for Spark pools (Notebooks) or Data Flows. These are both heavily consumption oriented which will vary greatly based on your runtime choices like pool size. Their costs are based on minutes of consumption, so good luck predicting that.
Here is a sample pricing calculator filled out to describe your situation. The assumptions are below.
you are using a Dedicated SQL pool not a Serverless SQL pool
you have scaled the dedicated SQL pool to DWU100c and left it running 24 hours a day (if you programmatically pause it then that would reduce the cost)
you do not want to commit to running it 24 hours a day for 1 or 3 years and get reserved pricing discounts
in the dedicated SQL pool you have under 1TB of data (compressed) and you have geo-redundant backups enabled
you are running under 1,000 pipeline activities per month on the self-hosted integration runtime, copy activities run less than an hour per month, and other activity hours are less than 7 hours per month.
you are not using other parts of Synapse like Spark pools, data flows, Data Explorer pools, Synapse Serverless SQL, etc.
you are in the East US Azure region
you have a B2s virtual machine with a 128GB premium SSD OS disk and no other attached disks where the self-hosted IR is installed. It is running 24 hours a day. (The VM cost but not storage cost could be lowered if you pause and resume it programmatically)
on the B2s virtual machine you do not want to commit to running it 24 hours a day for 1 or 3 years to get a reserved pricing discount and you are renting the Windows license with the VM rather than bringing your license with Azure Hybrid Benefit
this is retail pricing
Do you get billed in Azure for each time you publish an Azure Functions from VS?
The short answer is Yes, you get charged for publishing an Azure Function from Visual Studio. But "each time?" well, not really.
So, let's get to understand how that works. Azure functions although they offer you 1,000,000 executions per month (considering the execution time and memory), your code has to live somewhere which is the Function Storage Account.
Storage Accounts pricing could be broken down into two main costs:
Storage:
You pay for storage per month (pay-as-you-go) unless you are on a Premium storage plan. The first 50 TB of data in a Hot access tier of blob data is ~$0.0184 to $0.0424 per GB depends on where your data is hosted and its redundancy.
Now in your case that cost will incure once per 50 TB per month
Transfer:
When you deploy your data via Visual Studio you're effectively making API calls to Write your data which is charged (also depends on your data host location and redundancy) per 10,000 operations that includes every time you or your function does PutBlob, PutBlock, PutBlockList, AppendBlock, SnapshotBlob, CopyBlob, and SetBlobTier on that Storage Account. The operations cost varies from $0.05 to $0.091 for every 10,000 operations.
Others:
Other costs may incure using features such as Blob Index, Blob Changes, and encryption.
Conclusion
Publishing your Function from Visual Studio contributes to the overall cost of the Functions's Storage Accout. However, the cost is very small (sub $1) even if you published your function thousands of times every month.
For more information about Azure Blob Storage pricing visit https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/blobs/#pricing
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.
I dont know if this is the right place, but I am assuming MSFT staff also answers these questions since the azure portal links to StackOverflow?
Questions:
I understand that Azure no longer bills me for a VM so long as it and its cloud service are stopped. But what is unclear is am I going to be billed for the Cloud Service itself? For example say i create a Virtual machine and by doing so i get a cloud service for it (with ip). Then I turn off that virtual Machine and the cloud service. Do i still get billed for the cloud service even though everything is turned off?
Continuing on the question above. Do i get billed storage fees for the Virtual Machines filesystem. Currently windows vms are around 120GB in size. How does the billing work out for virtual machines? And how does it change if the machine is turned off.
How are Custom Images billed? Say i create my Windows 2012 Master image with IIS and a few other components installed. Then I create my own Image so that I can bring up vms more rapidly. Where is the VM image stored? Will it be in my blob container under VHD's? And again will microsoft charge me to store this image? Will it be the full 120+ GB or the actual size of the image stored.
Sorry to ask these questions. Tried my best to google around and all i could find was a post by Scott Gu where he stated VMs wont be billed and very little detail beyond that.
I understand that Azure no longer bills me for a VM so long as it and
its cloud service are stopped. But what is unclear is am I going to be
billed for the Cloud Service itself? For example say i create a
Virtual machine and by doing so i get a cloud service for it (with
ip). Then I turn off that virtual Machine and the cloud service. Do i
still get billed for the cloud service even though everything is
turned off?
Essentially think of a cloud service as a shell under which you deploy a VM. Among other things, a cloud service provides you with a DNS (yourcloudservice.cloudapp.net for example). What you get charged for is the VM and not the cloud service so if you have nothing deployed in a cloud service, you don't get charged anything.
Continuing on the question above. Do i get billed storage fees for the
Virtual Machines filesystem. Currently windows vms are around 120GB in
size. How does the billing work out for virtual machines? And how does
it change if the machine is turned off.
Yes, I believe so. You would be charged for 120 GB of storage (based on this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sql_shep/archive/2013/06/10/azure-billing-per-minute-and-no-compute-charge-for-a-stopped-iaas-vm.aspx) [See my note on pricing below].
How are Custom Images billed? Say i create my Windows 2012 Master
image with IIS and a few other components installed. Then I create my
own Image so that I can bring up vms more rapidly. Where is the VM
image stored? Will it be in my blob container under VHD's? And again
will microsoft charge me to store this image? Will it be the full 120+
GB or the actual size of the image stored.
Custom images are billed in a similar way as standard images as in both cases the VHD file is stored in your blob storage account so Microsoft will charge you for storage. Since VHDs are essentially saved as page blobs and page blobs are only charged based on the bytes occupied you will only be charged for the space you consumed.
UPDATE
VHD Pricing: Essentially VHDs are stored in blob storage as page blobs and the pricing of page blobs is calculated a little bit differently. For page blobs, you're only charged for the bytes you used instead of total blob size. So for example, you have a VHD of 120 GB size (i.e. your page blob size is 120 GB) but you're only occupying 30 GB there, you're only charged for 30 GB and not 120 GB.
As #Gaurav stated, you're not charged for the service container, only for running vm's. In the case of stopped VM's, you won't be charged, although you lose your assigned IP address if you have no other running vm's. You can choose to keep a vm provisioned to preserve IP address but then you'll continue paying for the VM. When a VM is stopped, you'll still pay for its storage (since these are persistent virtual machines).
Regarding storage costs: While the vhd might be a 120GB disk, you only pay for storage that's been actually used. That is, the page blob uses sparse allocation. If you format a 120GB volume but only use 30gb, you're billed for 30gb monthly, not 120gb. You pay for all vhd's, including your custom images, since each is stored in your storage account. Again, you don't pay for 120gb on your custom images; just for the allocated pages.
I don't think you get charged for the OS disk. If you have a data disk then you will be charged for the space used.
I'm currently working out the cost-analysis for my upcoming Azure project. I am tempted to use a Azure Cloud Role, because it has a certain amount of storage included in the offer. However, I have the feeling that it is too good to be true.
Therefore, I was wondering. Do you have to pay transaction-costs/ storage costs on this "included" storage? I can't find any information about this on the Azure website, and I want to be as accurate as possible (even if the cost of transactions is almost nothing).
EDIT:
To clarify, I specifically want to know about the transaction costs on the storage. Do you have to pay a small cost per transaction on the storage (like with Blob/Table storage), or is this included in the offer as well?
EDIT 2:
I am talking about the storage included with the Cloud Services (web/worker) and not a separate Table/blob storage.
Can you clarify which offer you're referring to?
With Cloud Services (web/worker roles), each VM instance has some local storage associated with it, which is free of charge and, because it's a local disk, there are no transactions or related fees associated with this storage. As Rik pointed out in his answer, that data is not durable: it's on a single disk and will be gone forever if, say, the disk crashes.
If you're storing data in Blobs, Tables, or Queues (Windows Azure Storage), then you pay per GB ($0.095 cents per GB per month for geo-redundant storage, or $0.07 per GB per month for locally-redundant storage), and a penny per 100,000 transactions. And as long as your storage account is in the same data center as your Cloud Service, there's no data egress fees.
Now we come back to the question of which offer you're referring to. The free 90-day trial, for instance, comes with 70GB of Windows Azure Storage, and 50M transactions monthly included. MSDN subscriptions come with included storage and transactions as well. If you're just working with a pay-as-you-go subscription, you'll pay for storage plus transactions.
The storage is included, but not guaranteed to be persistent. Your role could be shut down and started on a different physical location, which has no impact on the availability of your role, but you'll lose your whatever you have in storage, I.E. the included storage is very much temporary.
As for transaction costs, you only pay for outgoing data, not incoming data or data within Azure (one role to another).
You pay per GB, and $0,01 per 100.000 transactions