Use of the Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator

Use of the Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator


Microsoft Azure Calculator estimates your organizational costs for almost every scenario. Pricing Calculator is an online tool. It works by adding the services and products you want to add. We come across Virtual Machine, Storage Accounts, Azure SQL Database, App Service, Azure Cosmos DB, Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Funciton, Azure Cognitive Services, Azure Cost Management and Billing Products and many services.

You can access the Azure Pricing Calculator from here. Interface is really simple and you can easily understand the usage of the calculator by looking at the options.

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : Interface

Resource Category can be selected on the left and can be added to the estimator by clicking on the relevant resources

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : Adding Resources

Resource attributes can be separately selected under the added resources. Below you can see the sample attributes of added Virtual Machine, pricing changes can be easily notice with the changes

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : Resource Attributes

Savings options are also available with the License you already have and you can see the savings that you make with the options

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : BYOL for discounts
How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : See the discount

Support options are also available and you can completely include what you need and calculate the complete cost estimation for your Cloud infrastructure

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : Include the support for pricing

These Support options were listed for my Selection

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : Available Support options

Once you are done with the cost estimation you can proceed with the purchasing options directly from Microsoft or through a Partner. Pretty straight forward

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : Purchasing Options

Once you logged in you can save the previous estimations for later use

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : Saved Estimations

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) tab also there for a convenient quick answers for the Customer questions

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : FAQ Page

How To Use Microsoft Pricing Calculator For Azure DR Service (DRaaS)

Recently, Microsoft has added few new features to the Azure VM Disaster recovery and Cost estimation for the Azure Disaster Recovery VMs was a part of these features.

You can plan how many customer instances you have and how many instances that you need to migrate. Complete cost Calculation can be done with this and you can add this with “Management And Governance” option

How To Use Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator : ASR for pricing

It will be reflected in your estimator according to the specs you provided for your Azure DR Solution. ASR (Azure Site Recovery) will use the compression for the data transfer between source and the destination site so compression ratio must be considered to decide the data transfer between the sites.

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