The price calculator Azure does not show option for us we inform the number of hours that we use his service. Is the price calculator Windows Azure calculating 24 hours of use per day during the month?
How can I calculate the amount I pay if I access the Windows Azure services for two hours for day throughout the month?
1. The calculator shows both prices per hour and per month. Yet, the monthly price is estimated on average of (fully consumed) 744 hours per month.
2. You're paying for the resources you consume, not for the resources you accessed. That means that even if nobody visited your website/webrole for the entire month, you would still have to pay the compute cost (the bandwidth cost will be $0 though).
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As per Microsoft
Estimated charges for the current billing period are updated six times per day.
but it does say how often it calculates the forecast vs actual billing?
Cost & usage data is typically available within 8 ~ 24 hours. And the cost analysis is just a tool to visualize the accumulated data, the interval at which the information are updated might be dependent to several factors as described Here
In short, how do i calculate yearly unit production cost based on fixed cost divided by amount produced?
I am making dashboard in power BI for a video production studio company. They have a fixed cost per month and year based on the salary of the employees, production equipment etc. Lets say that the monthly fixed cost is $20 000. As tables show below i have a column called videos recorded, which i need to tie to the month, and then divided on the fixed cost which will be cost per video on a given month and in summary production cost per video in year 2022. So i want to visualize on a card or table, for July fixed cost were $20.000, we made 30 videos which is $667 per video.
Tables below
I'm trying to create a subscription in stripe which depending on how long people have been subscribed the price per month goes down e.g.:
1st month 1000$
2nd,3rd,4th month 800$
5-9 months 750$
9-12 600$
< 12 500$
I looked into tiered discounts but couldn't find a relation to the single subscription price since tiered discount seems to only look at currently subscribed units, and not total volume of units since subscription started. Any advice?
You can do this by listening for upcoming invoices and then changing the Plan on the Subscription based on how long the Subscription has been active.
Another option is to use Subscription Schedules.
Is it possible to create a plan that costs 30$ per month and one that costs 250$ per year, or do I have to create two different plans, one monthly and one annually and set different intervals and prices?
I've searched by can't find anything, but looking at Azure Storage and AWS S3, the rate at which you're billed is based on how much storage is used; most of these measurements are on a per month basis.
Does this mean there is a one time charge for the storage or does is compound?
EG:
Assumption: $1/1Gb
One month I store 30GB of data, the next month I use another 30GB of data. Does that mean that I would pay $30 each month or would I pay $30 the first month and then $60 the next month. The former is $60 total and the latter being $90 total.
Billing is compounded based on the actual storage used.
Let's assume that on the 1st day of your billing cycle in 1st month, you upload 30 GB and then on the 1st day of your billing cycle in 2nd month, you uploaded another 30 GB.
So for 1st month you stored 30 GB thus the price would be $30 for 1st month. In the 2nd month you stored 60 GB (30 GB from 1st month and 30 GB for the 2nd month) so the price for the 2nd month would be $60. So in total you would be paying $90 in two months.
most of these measurements are on a per month basis
Well, yes and no. The rate is a monthly rate, but for object storage services, it's typical for the bill to be calculated hourly.
Assuming 750 (round number) hours in a month, storing 750GB for around 2 hours would be the same price as storing 2GB for the entire month.
You pay for what you use for as long as you use it, prorated against some minimum time granularity, which is typically an hour.
These questions are answered in the various vendors' documentation.
Note that this is true for object storage services, but not block storage services like Elastic Block Store. These services give you a fixed number of GB of storage capacity in disk volumes, and you are billed for the provisioned capacity because it's all there all the time, whether you are using that space or not.