- Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Free for 12 months, then prices start
from $0.008/hour - Functions – 1 million requests free every month, prices start from
$0.20/million executions
A Pricing Calculator is provided to help you estimate your monthly bill and the billing
portal helps you track your usage at all times. A TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)
calculator can help you to estimate how much you can save by moving your business to
Azure.
Service plans are also available in several flavors, including:
- Basic – starts at $0.030/hour
- Standard – starts at $0.040/hour
- Premium – starts at $0.080/hour
- Isolated – starts ate $1.60/hour.
Cost Management, what used to be known as Cloudyn, is a free service that provides
tools that help you monitor your costs, allocate and optimize them with complete
flexibility, allowing you to tailor your pricing and manage your spending with ease.
Can I Try Azure Services?
Yes you can. You can set up a free trial account with Azure immediately and be up and
running inside of 10 minutes at the most. Microsoft offers plenty of tutorials on how to
get started and how to begin building projects and they also have plenty of freebies on
offer.
Anybody can set up a free account unless you have already had an Azure account before,
either a paid one or a free trial.. Microsoft will give you $200 worth of Azure credits
when you sign up and these must be used within the first 30 days or you will lose them
- they can be used on most Azure services. Plus you also get 12 months free on selected
services and access to over 25 Azure products that are always free.
Once your credits have been spent or your 30 - day trial is up, whichever comes sooner,
you will be asked to sign up to a PAYG subscription by lifting the spending limit. This
will let you continue to use the free account and the selected free services. Provided you
keep within the limits offered by the free services, then you will not need to pay
anything.
If you opt not to upgrade at the end of your free trial, all products will be removed and,
should you want to try it again, you will need to sign up for a PAYG subscription.