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Help with pricing
Thanks Pieter. That's the tool I referred to in my post. I don't know what an "instance" implies, or the difference between LRS or GRS. Also, I don't know to what extent traffic to and from an Azure container is charged, or whether you just pay for storage space taken up by your data.
It can indeed be quite tricky to figure out the exact costs. Also I've found that when you add all the elements that you think you need the charges may not 100% match.
Something as simple as the storage costs:
It is quite difficult to predict the number of transactions. However it does give a bit of an idea how much things cost.
Within the Calculator you could include everything but are you sure you got everything? Also over time you will find that systems are used more and therefore your costs will slowly creep up. I would use the tool more to get a roguh indication of costs. So for example creating a VM is expensive but running Azure Functions is cheap. Therefore if you want to run PowerShell you should consider Functions to reduce the cost. Fully predicting the costs is going to be very difficult.
>> Fully predicting the costs is going to be very difficult
That's what I figured which is why I thought I'd just start using it and see how the costs stacked up. But I can't find anywhere that will give me existing costs. I'm assuming this is because of the free trial.
Anthony Marrian - there is a billing report dashboard that gives you exact run down of your free credit burn rate.
If it is not too much of hassle - I can help you out and show this to you in a short 15 min skype call. This way you will know exactly how much you are paying for the amount of data you are backing up.
That's kind of you, Jasjit, but my computer has neither camera nor microphone. Any videos or instructions you can point me at?
I don't think that the Trial gives you any discounts? It simply means that you aren't paying for the services and microsoft gives you credit for free.
