Azure Virtual Machines Pricing

“Overall on a personal level I believe Cloud recourses are more expensive than Physical kits and the depreciation plan of physical kit really doesn't happen over 3 years, in reality, people still own... … We also use AWS Cloud Services, personally, I think AWS is a little more expensive than Azure Virtual Machines but its swings and roundabouts mostly.
I prefer the interfaces in Azure Virtual...”

“We saw a significant cost-saving as a result of exiting our expensive data-center and migrating services to Microsoft Azure Cloud.”

“Also one of the major use of of Azure VM is it's highly cost effective than AWS EC2 so it helps us in Cost Management part as well.

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“Positive: pricing - reservations are available to further decrease costs Positive: pricing - you are only paying when VM is up.”

“A secure product that protects our workloads and has very good controls to access and is cost-effective with the pay-as-you-go billing system and offers ready-to-use storage resources.”

“Obviously running Linux on Azure works very well too, but given Azure's pricing is not the cheapest, there are other providers out there that have a better cost-benefit ratio for Linux.”

“There are various options available in terms of size and cost to meet the organisation's budget requirements.”

“Using a self-hosted integration runtime with Azure Data Factory, although only supports Windows, will make it more expensive. … Paying for computing and storage for distributed systems as opposed to self-hosted hardware would be more expensive.”

“Being able to move large capital costs into yearly operational costs while removing the need to maintain your own generators, power supply, fire suppression, backup and data recovery while moving...”

“Azure monitoring comes with the Azure subscription which helps us to quickly monitor Azure health and also quickly integrates with enterprise solutions.”

“We are a multi-cloud provider and therefore it's critical for our business value proposition to offer our services on multiple major cloud versions.”