Azure Pricing

Question 1

What pricing options does Azure offer?

Answer 1

Azure offers pay-as-you-go and reserved instances for pricing.

Question 2

What are the factors that affect Azure pricing?

Answer 2

Azure Pricing Factors:
- Resource size and resource type
- Different Azure locations have different prices for services
- The bandwidth of your services
- Any data transfer between two different billing zones is charged
- Ingress (data in) = free
- Egress (data out) = charged based on data going out of Azure datacenters

Question 3

How can costs be reduced in Azure?

Answer 3

Factors that can reduce costs:
- By purchasing a reserved instance (one-year or three-year terms), you can significantly reduce costs up to 72 percent compared to pay-as-you-go pricing
- A reserved capacity is a commitment for a period of one or three years for SQL Database and SQL Managed Instance
- Hybrid Benefit allows you to use your on-premises Software Assurance-enabled Windows Server and SQL Server licenses on Azure
- If you purchase an unused compute capacity, you can get deep discounts up to 90 percent compared to pay-as-you-go pricing. A spot virtual machine is for workloads that can tolerate in

Example sentence: By using Hybrid Benefit, you can save costs by utilizing your existing licenses on Azure.