<aside> 💡 These are Operational expense (OpEx) costs of renting infrastructure as you need it, whether it’s compute, storage, networking, etc.
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The type of resources, the settings for the resource, subscription type, services used, workloads, networking needs, storage requirements, products purchased in the Azure marketplace and the Azure region you use (due to cost of power, labor, taxes and fees) are factors that affect costs in Azure.
This is all in a pay-as-you-go basis, but you could also commit to using a set of resources in advance for a given period and receiving discounts on those “reserved” resources, in some cases up to a 72% discount.
<aside> 💡 By keeping an eye on your resources and making sure you’re not keeping around those you no longer need, you can help control cloud costs.
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<aside> đź’ˇ A zone (billing zone) is a geographical grouping of Azure regions for billing purposes.
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Designed to give you an estimated cost of the resources you intend to use in Azure, as well as where those products will be deployed.
<aside> đź’ˇ Its focus is on the cost of provisioned resources in Azure.
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In the end it provides the estimate of the resources you added:
Designed to help you compare the costs of running an on-premises infrastructure compared to an Azure Cloud infrastructure, as you enter your current infrastructure configuration (servers, databases, storage, outbound network traffic) and the TCO compares the anticipated costs for you current environment with an Azure environment supporting the same infrastructure.
In the end, it gives a report with detailed charts of expense savings and a breakdown of on-premises costs and Azure costs, so you can determine where you’ll save money.
It provides the ability to quickly check Azure resource costs, create alerts based on resource spend and create budgets that can be used to automate the management of resources.
Cost Analysis (subset of Cost Management) provides a visual for your Azure costs:
