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How do I get 50 Azure Defender to protect windows servers on premise?
MicrosoftHi Eulogio,
Azure Defender for Servers is paid on a per node/per hour basis (currently $0.02 or €0.017 per server and per hour). There is no flat fee for onprem servers, and charges apply when a server is running, only. More details can be found in the pricing calculator. Features that are covered with Azure Defender on Windows servers are listed here.
Best regards,
Tom Janetscheck
Senior Program Manager
CxE | Azure Security Center
Thanks for the info.
I think I was confusing defender by itself and defender with atp. I started this research journey because we've had Kaspersky for 5 years now and always turned off the Microsoft antivirus. So my goal was to just get a few of my servers protected with azure defender, antivirus only, instead of Kaspersky to see how that works but also wanted to manage the antivirus centrally. So I ended up just jumping right into ATP with azure security portal. When all I wanted to start with was managing Defender on servers.
- Tom_Janetscheck
I think we need to clarify the wording: Azure Defender is the Cloud Workload Protection Platform (CWPP) built into Azure Security Center, whereas you seem to be referring to our antimalware solution (SCEP/Microsoft Antimalware/Microsoft Defender Antivirus). Antimalware for Azure VMs is part of Azure Security Center without additional cost. For on-prem servers, you will need to onboard them to Azure Defender.
Best,
Tom Janetscheck
Senior Program Manager
CxE | Azure Security Center
Your response plus this https://www.microsoft.com/security/blog/?p=91813 seems to make things clearer.
When you mention onboarding on-premise server to Azure Defender, is that free? "Managing" on-prem servers in the Azure Defender portal.
