Category / Compute / Pricing
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Azure Dedicated hosts: more expensive than regular Azure VMs?
To make the transition to Azure easier for Hosters running their customers’ workloads on a large virtualized host environment, Microsoft introduced Dedicated Hosts in 2020. In this blog we will answer whether…
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Internet Egress
From Outbound traffic to Egress From the very beginning of Azure, incoming internet traffic was free of charge and outgoing traffic was and is being charged. In recent months, Microsoft has not…
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Azure Hybrid Benefit: better then Black Friday discount
If a server is deployed on Azure, the version including the operating system is chosen by default and in case of a SQL Server, including the SQL license. That makes the Azure…
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Right Sizing scenario’s
Many Azure Migrate quotes are lost because the Azure VMs offered have the same configuration in terms of CPU and GBRAM as the existing customer VMs that have often been around for…
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The performance differences between successive generations of processors
The Audi A3 1.6 liter version from the year 2000 had an output of 102 hp and a top speed of 189 km / h. The 2018 Audi A3 1.5 liter has…
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What the GBRAM/Core ratio of a VM indicates
A virtual machine (VM) is configured by adding virtual Cores of vCPU and Internal Memory (GBRAM). The ratio of the GBRAM and vCores is an indication for what workloads this VM is…
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Making easy price estimates with an aggregated Azure VM-series price
Those who want to make an Azure Compute price estimate today are forced to convert the existing list of VMs to a list of Azure VMs. This conversion of an existing VM…
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The Azure pricing is dynamic, complex and constantly changing. Microsoft discount programs come and go to push specific Azure offerings under certain conditions. This blog will help you to better understand the Azure pricing, keep track of price- and program changes and ultimately making better and more competitive Azure offerings.
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