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Moving your workload to the cloud platform can provide you with multiple benefits such as low maintenance costs, reduced labor costs, and automatic data backup to name a few. However, the biggest issue businesses face while shifting their workload to the cloud is the cost. Therefore, the estimation of the cost of shifting the workload to the cloud would help them to decide whether moving this transition is beneficial or not as compared to running the workload on on-premise resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Azure cost estimator can help them with cost estimation for shifting the workload to the cloud. Here is the step-by-step guide on how you can find cost estimation for using VMs over on-premises resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>What is an Azure Pricing Calculator?<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Azure pricing calculator<\/a> is used for calculating the cost of moving the workload to Azure cloud<\/strong><\/a>. The calculator shows the prices of different configurations and sizes of virtual machines based on various specifications. This includes storage capacity, memory, CPU cores, usage hours, network bandwidth, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It makes the comparison between the cost of running the workload over the cloud in comparison to the on-premises resources based on the above metrics. This helps organizations to make an informed decision whether to use the Azure cloud service or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/span>Estimate Workload Cost Using the Pricing Calculator<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The following step by step guide will help you to get an estimate through using the Azure pricing calculator. Follow the below given steps to get an estimate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 1:<\/strong> Go to the Microsoft Azure page and open the Pricing calculator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 2: <\/strong>Go to the products tab and select Virtual Machines option. Next, check all the VM options and fill in all the configuration details related to your VM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 3:<\/strong> Next, you need to replace the Your Estimate and Virtual Machines text with descriptive names. Replace Your Estimate with My Pricing Calculator Estimate Virtual Machines with Windows VM.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Step 4:<\/strong> After that, replace the default specifications of Virtual Machines with your own specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Note: All the pricing models offered by Azure are subject to change. For more information on VM options, choose the More Information menu on the right side and select Product Information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 5:<\/strong> In the billing option menu, select the pay as you go option. This pricing option works upon an demand pricing scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Step 6:<\/strong> According to Azure, a month includes 730 hours, and you can configure your VM for a complete month. For this, you need to specify 730 as the value for hours per month. Similarly, if you need VM for 50 % availability, mention the specification as 365 hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 7:<\/strong> Next, go to the Managed OS Disks and replace the set-up configuration with your own OS disk specifications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 8:<\/strong> You can also add up the networking bandwidth to the Azure cloud estimate. Simply, open the Azure Pricing Calculator page, and open the networking option in the product menu. Then, select the Bandwidth tile and select the view option available in the Bandwidth added message dialog box<\/p>\n\n\n

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Step 9:<\/strong> Give a descriptive name to your VM bandwidth configuration by replacing the default name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suggested Read:<\/strong> What is Azure Cloud Computing and Why use it?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 10: <\/strong>Next, scroll to the top of the page to add up an application getaway. Go to the networking menu and choose the application getaway option. Once the application getaway dialog opens, select view.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Step 11: <\/strong>After you view the dialog, change the default application getaway name with the descriptive one. You also need to add additional details while changing the name such as the region, data processed, tiers, hours, instances, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Final Step:<\/strong> Go through the pricing estimate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here are the steps to quickly review the results filtered out by Azure Pricing Calculator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n