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We need to use our ERP as SAAS (Software As A Service). We tried the Azure trial for three months, and technically was a succes. But, when we use RemoteApp services, the system asked for licenses (after 90 days), but We don't know if it is possible to paying monthly or how to obtain the licenses.
We have the great business opportunity, but I tried to contact microsfot support in Guatemala (Central America), and they always offered responses in 48 hrs. but after a month I haven't received any response. My no. ticket is 130109017590.
Can anyone help me with my explain how licensing works in Azure?
I think you are asking about licensing in Azure. If you are talking about something else please let me know.
Azure is set up as a Pay as You Go model where your initial monthly bill is $0 and it goes up from there based on how many resources you use. Resources in this case can be computing hours (i.e. you have a package deployed to a Cloud Service via Web or Worker Role)
Most of the functionality in Azure falls under the Platform as a Service, where the details of networking, hardware, OS, etc. are handled for you and you just focus on building and deploying applications. That being said, all of the licensing that you might normally have to worry about on an on-premise implementation is taken care of in Azure.
That just leaves billing. Billing in Azure is pretty straightforward. Smaller accounts (those that don't have an EA) are just set up with a credit card when you create the account. You will be billed on a given interval (monthly) for all of the resources you used in the previous month.
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As per the Microsoft doc, the SLA for App Service is 99.95%. Is this SLA valid for a given region in which the App Service is created? or is it a general SLA?
SLA of 99.95% has a downtime of 21 mins 36 seconds. Now, if I create an App Service in West Europe and if that region has a major outage, does that mean Azure will automatically re-create my App Service in another reason without changing DNS or any configuration?
Is this SLA valid for a given region in which the App Service is
created? or is it a general SLA?
Yes it is valid for a given region where the app service is created
Does that mean Azure will automatically re-create my App Service in
another reason without changing DNS or any configuration?
No , you need to have a secondary site configured in another region and reroute the users to that particular site whenever a major outage happens
SLA is different for various service in Azure and also depends on the plan/tier that you have choosed.
SLA depends on lot of factor
server location
DR plan
Load balancer
network latency
Example - Azure cognitive service might have higher SLA than App service, because the server infrastructure, disatory recovery all handled and created by microsoft itself so it will have almost 99.9 but for app service we choose what infrastructure we want and back up,etc.
Hope it clarifies.
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I would like to know which could be the best aproach to get learn Azure SQL Database with low cost. If i create an Account, it just works by 30 days (free account) and I need more than this.
So, basically I need an account which can allow me to use:
Azure SQL Database (can be basic tier)
Azure Blob Storage
Azure Data Factory
Azure VM
With this information, have some way to get this services with low cost to learn Azure?
One solution would be to upgrade your free account to Pay-as-you-go account.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/offers/ms-azr-0003p/
With this you can try a lot of services from azure. Many services are charged based on the usage and for your training purpose that would incur the cost of nearly nothing bease usage would be very less. You can delete the resources as soon as you finished learning in order to keep your account clean.
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I'm trying to compare AWS and Azure for a custom web app that's essentially like any canned content management system. It requires web hosting, database, email, storage, security, some way to process ASP.NET but with high availability and load balanced.
The PaaS/IaaS distinction can sometimes be grey (in part because companies tend to use marketing jargon that portrays IaaS type services as maintenance free). From a small business perspective its quite clear though. If a service involves the SMB spend time maintaining rather than developing, its in the IaaS camp. Since I'm a single developer with limited time, a PaaS model for all services would be preferable. The ideal would be all services (web hosting, database, email, etc are offered as a zero maintenance scalable service rather than have to spin up and manage individual instances.
I find AWS can do everything but a drawback is that one still needs to manage instances (i.e. I would need to keep the software on instances updated, track instances, manage network, security, etc.) S3 doesn't process scripts. AWS Beanstalk and Optworks are still essentially mostly helper apps for starting up an IaaS type environment. (whereas say DynamoDB would count as a PaaS type service). Recently Microsoft has dropped prices on Azure which makes it an attractive alternative
In short, I am looking for a list of services offered by Azure which are actually no maintenance services that don't require I patch software or need to spin up instances to handle traffic spikes (e.g. web hosting, script processing, database, email, etc..)
web hosting, database, email, storage, security, some way to process ASP.NET but with high availability and load-balanced
All of the above are standard features which any matured cloud provider will have in the toolkit. In regards to MSFT Azure:
For web hosting - you have PaaS solutions such as App service plan
and App service environment. The upkeep of the platform (as the name suggests) is with Azure but note that any components that you deploy as part of the package belong to dev and test teams respectively
For database and storage - for a complete PaaS solution you have Azure SQL Server Database and Azure SQL Server Managed Instances, but as I said earlier you will anyways have to own any custom deployment (security policies, VNET injection and IAM's yourself)
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Does VM in azure container service cost? Microsoft is saying that the AKS azure container service is free for students. But when I go to create container service it's give a pricelist with vm. Is it will be cost for me as I am a student subscriber?
Azure Container Service is always free for a student subscriber, including it to cluster virtual machines.
But you should make sure that you haven't exhaust your available credit or reach the end of 12 months.You can see your remaining credit on the Microsoft Azure Sponsorships portal.
For more details, please refer to this article.
What happens after I use my $100 credit or I’m at the end of 12 months?
After you exhaust your available credit or reach the end of 12 months, your Azure subscription will be disabled. To continue using Azure, you may upgrade to a Pay-As-You-Go subscription by contacting Azure Support.
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Want to use Windows Azure for a couple of projects but as I haven't used it yet I am wondering how I can work out what I need to charge the end client as the cost can fluctuate based on usage/storage etc.
I would appreciate any comments on how others have firstly quoted costs when suggesting Azure to an end customer and how they charge for each month i.e. set monthly figure subject to change?
You should only get between your customer and the Azure charges if you are building a Software as a Service application or some similar multi-tenant application. In these cases what you charge should only be loosely related to Azure charges and may be difficult to figure out. You could, for example, measure outgoing bytes per tenant, but with difficulty.
If you are building an application on Azure for one customer, there is no reason to become a charges intermediary. Sit the customer down and walk them through setting up an Azure account - with their own credit card. Once they have the account created, they can make you an administrator. Have Microsoft invoice the customer directly and don't get involved. There are a few reasons for this:
Customer knowledge and control of costs is one of the benefits of the cloud. Having an educated customer, that understands and controls their costs is a good customer to have - and removes a lot of complicated explaining.
Azure pricing is public. If you add a margin the customer may feel ripped off.
You have no idea of the future load of the application and cannot take the risk on setting a fixed price. If you have the cash to take the risk, the price that you will charge to cover that risk will make it too expensive.
To start off with, using the Azure pricing calculator is fine. The pricing calculator breaks down when doing more complex things, but for an initial quote it is good enough. As a developer you should have an idea of the number of roles, databases, and so on, to feed into the initial pricing calculation.
Many things, and many architectural decisions affect the costs, so the cost model has to be continuously maintained and updated. One of the biggest factors is the load, which at least at the beginning, you probably have no medium-term clue what it is. Have a look at CALM, and reference the lifecycle and cost models for more insight.
If you feel you have to generate ongoing income from the application, rather enter into a support agreement using a flat rate or your own model (say $20 per month per role).
In summary, use the pricing calculator for ballpark figures, but let Microsoft bill the customer directly.