I see a lot of small companies using a basic web tier (up to 10 sites) and an S1 Azure SQL DB, with monthly costs around $114 AUD.
You can't directly compare it with a VM as that both requires management, etc plus doesn't have built in HA options. PaaS is the future not IaaS, which is really just an interim use of cloud systems. Regards Greg Dr Greg Low SQL Down Under +61 419201410 1300SQLSQL (1300775775) On 30 Dec 2015, at 10:24 AM, Rob Andrew <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hi Greg, We currently have a medium sized app (web site, some batch processes, 1-2 Gb DB) that was doing very little other than idling and receiving the odd data request to process. This was just running in an Azure VM. We were using it mainly for integration testing - so changes were reliant upon the other partners invoking our system. When we used the 'defaults' our bill was close to $200 / month. I was rather astounded at the cost - I can get a full VM in a DC in AU for < $90 /mth, probably better if I hunted around. But doing a lot of hunting around I managed to move us to a smaller plan and we are down to closer to $20 / month which is more what I expected given our load. Two things that hit me while doing this : * It's rather difficult to figure out where your costs are, and how to lower them / control them. * There are a lot of options that you are given by default that you dont need (but I think a lot of that is just us learning the ropes). * Azure SQL is not the full SQL Server :) [that caught us]. Anyhow - just our experiences... Rob Andrew AEGIS SOFTWORKS PTY LTD ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Keogh [mailto:[email protected]] To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 10:15:33 +1100 Subject: Hi folks, anyone working this week? (if you're not, then you should be tweaking your hobby code). Because I get free Azure quotas as part of my MSDN subscription, and because I never push Azure really hard, I don't have a feel for what is costs in a typical business environment. Is anyone here using Azure as part of a small to medium sized business app, perhaps with a SQL database and some blobs and tables? If so, what magnitude of monthly bills do you receive? I ask, because more often I suggest to people that they push their apps and work into the cloud, but if I'm asked what the cost is like I can't give them a comparison or a ballpark figure. Perhaps someone here has had typical realistic experience in this. I also ask because most Azure Team news broadcast emails I receive contains words like "This change may cause a price increase on your monthly Azure bill" (as the last one did). I only ever seem to get notifications of price increases and it really makes me nervous about recommending it to anyone. Cheers, Greg K
