Azure pricing structures
I'm trying to make sense of the Microsoft Azure pricing structures (from the https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/ website) which says that the App Service starts from $0.013/hour, the Virtual Machines from $0.011/hour, and SQL Database from $0.021/hour) (see the screenshot below).
What do these prices mean?
Also, what does "Free for the first 12 months" mean?
What do these prices mean?
Also, what does "Free for the first 12 months" mean?
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What exactly does "Free for the first 12 months" mean?
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Does anyone else have any further explanations about how to decipher the Azure pricing structures?
Did you try the calculator I pointed to? That helped me immensely to get a handle on comparing to what I am already doing. You may be used to paying a flat fee per month. What Azure does (as well as other cloud solutions) is allow you to spin up a virtual machine for part of a day, part of a month or full time for as long as you need. If you are trying to compare to a dedicated service or traditional hosting vendor, it will be easier to use the per month pricing instead of the per hour.
Ares Kurklu did a good job pointing out what "free" is referring to.
Ares Kurklu did a good job pointing out what "free" is referring to.
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