When I look at the bill for my test account I see items like:

Basic Gateway Hours - Virtual Network

Standard IO - Page Blob/Disk (GB)

Storage Transactions (in 10,000s) - Data Management

in addition to other items like Compute Hours, etc.

I didn't see these items listed in the Microsoft Azure Pricing Calculator and I am wondering how to anticipate these costs for a prospect.

• Moved by Shreya HajelaMicrosoft contingent staff, Moderator Thursday, August 27, 2015 5:06 AM related to billing.

Thanks for the reply.  I know what the items are I just don't know how to quote a customer on the estimated costs for these items in advance since they are not included in the calculator.  Any tips or documentation on how to anticipate these costs before they are incurred?

Hey There.

Thanks for posting,

Gateway pricing - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/vpn-gateway/

Storage - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/

In the storage pricing page you will see that microsoft charge 0.0036 per 100,000 transactions for all Standard storage types.

Hope it helps,

Ido

• Proposed as answer by Ido KatzMVP 17 hours 40 minutes ago

Hi,

I understand your concern. Let us explain :

Standard IO - Page Blob/Disk (GB) :

This means the total amount of storage you will use per month, and it's calculated per day basis. This is an estimation an cannot be defined by Microsoft because they ignore how much data you will consume. For virtual machines for example, a standard windows server uses 15 GB, so you can estimate how much Windows OS disks will consume (VMnumber x 15). Ask the customer for the data and application consumption/requirements. Look here to understand how storage pricing is calculated (See the FAQ) http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/

Storage transaction

This is the most unpredictable metric, since you you can't define how storage transaction your workloads will make. This can be predicted after months of Azure usage, since you can at least look how 'standard application' behave and how much they generate transactions in average. But transactions cost will not be important compared to the storage cost itself (cheap)

Basic Gateway Hours

This is easy to predict, since you establish you VPN Gateway, you can calculate its cost (Usually a getaway will be always up and running, and then you will calculate a cost for a month usage). Look here http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/vpn-gateway/

You can refer to the pricing section in this blog

https://buildwindows.wordpress.com/2015/05/12/azure-the-virtual-machines-service-introduction/

Hey There.

Thanks for posting,

Gateway pricing - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/vpn-gateway/

Storage - http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/storage/

In the storage pricing page you will see that microsoft charge 0.0036 per 100,000 transactions for all Standard storage types.

Hope it helps,

Ido

• Proposed as answer by Ido KatzMVP Thursday, August 27, 2015 1:37 PM