office hours, then schedule the switching on and off activities using Automation Automation: When given times are available, ie.Uptime: if a service is not needed at given times, then turn them off and stop paying for what is actively used.Things that need to be taken into consideration are: Unfortunately, some common sense may be required when using Azure Services. Well, what really works in their defence is that the Azure Pricing Calculator really helps organizations to provide an estimate. Sounds like quite a rant to Microsoft, right? Microsoft’s biggest competitor, AWS, has such a tool. I’d like to see Microsoft deliver a tool that allows me to fill in these variables. This behaviour will automatically cause the second question to be asked. The fun part of is that many organizations have no idea which costs they have and if they do, taking them in the equation. Here’s a, most certainly incomplete, list of costs IT organizations make: I need to have a total overview In order to provide an honest and accurate calculation since most organisations want to mirror their on-premises costs to Microsoft Azure’s. All I could find was an old post available at but the tools are not there anymore. TCO is something that a CFO looks at and he or she wants the TCO to be a low as possible. It is still an estimate and that’s problematic because I cannot really use it for any TCO calculation. It allows me to provide an estimate on how much it will cost an organisation to use Azure services. Provinding an answer for the first question is quite challenging because Microsoft provides the Azure Pricing Calculator (available at ) only. “Yeah, it’s very nice this Microsoft Azure and all that other gay stuff, but how much does it cost? Many times I get a feedback question that most likely goes like this: I’ve been helping out customers adopting the Public Cloud more frequently and I must admit it’s a lot of fun.ĭuring these conversations I’m focusing a lot on architecting Azure solutions (especially IaaS). The main reason I didn’t post anything for a while is that I was very busy personally and professionally. It’s been a while since I posted my previous blog post.
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