Hi Grant, you might be one of the few people in history with the will power
to attempt to use the calculator, I balked. My usage is small in
comparison, about 60MB of Table rows and 3GB of Blobs, all with trivial IO
counts. My recent account summaries show a cost of about $0.25/month for
this data, so I'm guessing your low figures are in the right order of
magnitude.

I also have a Basic Small App running my personal web site, which also has
trivial hit rates and it costs $55/month. I recently deleted a tiny SQL
database which had zero IO and was costing about $30/month. I restate my
alarm over these costs, especially the Apps, which can add-up to
frightening annual amounts which might dissuade small business from
chucking out their own boxes and migrating to the cloud.

*Greg*

On 26 July 2016 at 15:45, Grant Molloy <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi list..
>
> Azure has always baffled me a bit with their pricing..  I'm looking into
> something for my employer and looking at the costs here,
> https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/ and trying to
> work out the cost of storing files starting from scratch..
>
> So with this following scenario, can anyone confirm my pricing examples?
> So lets say I have 0 files in Azure to start with.
> If each month 5,000 5mb files are uploaded (giving approx 25.6GB of files
> at the end of the month), and each file is written only 1 time, but read 3
> times.
>
>
> *BLOB storage *prices (from above link)..
> + Storage - GRS (COOL) - First 100TB/M $0.0382 (is prorata'd)
> + Access - GRS (COOL) - Put (/10,000) $0.2547
> - Other (/10,000)   $0.0127
> - Retrieval (GB) $0.0127
> -  Write (GB)   $0.0064
> - GRS (GB)   $0.1528  (geographical redundancy)
>
> Example:
> END OF FIRST MONTH
> Storage: 25.6/2 x ((0.0382/100)*0.025)  NOTE: have halved data amount to
> give an average for the month, as you're not paying for the full 25.6GB of
> storage for the whole month.
> 12.8 * 0.00000955 = $ 0.00012224
> Access: PUT: 0.2547/10k * 5k = $ 0.12735
> READ: 25.6GB * 3 * 0.0127 = $ 0.97536
> GRS:  25.6GB * 0.1528 = $ 3.91168
> *$$  5.01451224*
>
> END OF 2nd MONTH
> Storage: (25.6GB + 25.6/2) x ((0.0382/100)*(0.025+0.025/2))
> 38.4GB x (0.000382 * 0.0375)
> 38.4GB x 0.000014325 = $ 0.00055008
> Access: PUT: 0.2547/10k * 5k = $ 0.12735
> READ: 25.6GB * 3 * 0.0127 = $ 0.97536
> GRS:  25.6GB * 0.1528 = $ 3.91168
> *$$  5.01494008*
>
>
> *FILE storage* (prices from above link too)
> File Storage
> + Storage - GRS Per GB $0.1401
> + Access - GRS - Put (/10k) $0.3821
> - List (/10k) $0.1911
> - Other (/10k) $0.0191
> Example.
> END OF FIRST MONTH
> Storage: 25.6GB/2 x 0.1401 = $  1.79
> Put: (0.3821 / 10k * 5k) = $  0.19
> Read: (0.0191 / 10k * 5k) x 3 = $  0.03
>  *$$  2.01*
> END OF 2nd MONTH
> Storage: (25.6 + 25.6/2)GB x 0.1401 = $ 5.38
> Put: (0.3821 / 10k * 5k) = $  0.19
> Read: (0.0191 / 10k * 5k) x 3 = $  0.03
> * $$  5.60*
>
> Do these calculations look correct ??
>

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