MicrosoftThank you for your clarifications shashban.
I am very afraid that customers of mine using on-premises Arc-Enabled servers won't use Azure Update Manager due to the atrocious costs.
I had schedules for 2 more deployments at scale. These projects will be certainly cancelled in the light of the billing model.
As of today with the free offer of AZUM(C) a simple Update Management that is connecting to free WU services, it was the perfect entry for customers to leverage the power of Arc-enabled servers. Then building up with paid services such as Azure Monitoring or Security.
If the border is set and remains $5 per VM per month, as you said, including Azure Stack HCI VMs, except the customer choose Defender P2, this entry barrier is way too high and honestly ruins this otherwise amazing service as a starter for Arc-enabled services.
It hurts me much that customers won't accept that fee and we have to undeploy existing AUM(C) preview rollouts quickly, as the one year free does not apply for them. They never used the old method, to prevent the forseeable migration.
Then after have to deploy WSUS or 3rd party patchmanagement again, that are cost-effective for on-premises.
It's really a pitty, and I am frankly speaking angry about the unforseen change of Microsoft charging this service.
I would like to mind how much extra costs get incurred for each Arc-enabled VM using Automanage or equivalency of all services. That's easily 15 or more a month.
No at scale discounts, no reservations. 😞
