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Iron Contributor

Jul 17, 2023

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RE: Commitment Tiers in Microsoft Sentinel

If you choose a commitment tier of 100 GB per day, are you charged the fixed rate per day OR the amount of GB I use per day, say 50GB? So, let's say I use, on average, 50GB for 30 days, and I am ...

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Clive_Watson
Jul 17, 2023
In that Workbook I used this logic, however that was before the recent pricing changes, so I do need to go back and compare to the calculator to see if an update is needed.

i between (51 .. 180),"100",
i between (181 .. 286),"200",
i between (287 .. 390),"300",
i between (391 .. 476),"400",
i between (477 .. 975),"500",
i between (976 .. 1897),"1000",
i between (1898 .. 4729),"2000",
i >= 4730 ,"5000",

The tier thresholds are to do with the "saving over PAYG" you see some of that here - the % makes the difference.
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/microsoft-sentinel/

KubaTom

Brass Contributor

Jul 17, 2023

Not sure if I understand your question so feel free to clarify if this doesn't answer it!

Only PAYG allows you to pay per GB, any other Tier is per day. So no matter if on T1 you're ingesting 1GB or 99GB, you will still be paying the set price for your location as per this calculator (and any overage will be calculated on top):

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/pricing/details/microsoft-sentinel/#pricing

If it wasn't the case, everyone would be on the highest tier to take advantage of the cheapest per GB rate, no matter what their actual usage is...