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Pricing and Support

Pricing and Support — SLAS

Service Level Agreement (SLA) describes Azure’s commitments for uptime and connectivity

SLA’s are individualized per Azure service Uptime and connectivity is described as Performance Targets

A Performance Target is represented as a percentage %. 99% (two nines) 99.9% (three nines) 99.999% (five nines) 99.9999999% (nine nines)

Azure not does provide SLAS for Free Tier or the shared tiers.

Pricing and Support — Service Credits

Service Credits

customers may have a discount applied to their Azure bill, as compensation for an under-performing Azure product or service based on the SLA.

Azure Virtual Machine Service Credit Calculation

Monthly Uptime %Service Credit %
< 99.910
< 9925
< 95100

Pricing and Support — Composite SLA

Different services have different SLAs. A Composite SLA is when you combine SLAS across different service offerings.

Pricing and Support — TCO Calculator

Estimate the cost savings you can realize by migrating your workloads to Azure Generate out a detailed report and export as a PDF to send to decision makers. azure.microsoft.com/pricing/calculator

Azure Support Plans

Azure Licensing — Azure Hybrid Benefit

Many customers have invested in Windows Server licenses and would like to repurpose this investment on Azure.

Azure Hybrid Use Benefit (HUB) Gives customers the right to use these licenses for virtual machines on Azure.

  • Windows Servers
  • SQL Servers

HUB can be turned on and off at anytime for existing VMS HUB can be applied at deployment time for new VMS Bring your own license (BYOL)

Azure Subscriptions

An Azure Subscription is the same as saying our Azure Account.

There are 4 tiers of Azure Subscriptions: of Azure Subscriptions:

Free Subscription

  • Credit Card Required
  • $200 USD credits free for 30 days
  • Certain Azure products free for 12 months

Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) Subscription

  • Credit Card Required
  • Charged end at the of the month based on consumed cloud resources

Enterprise Agreement

  • An Enterprise and Azure agree on receive discounted price for licenses and cloud services

Student Subscription

  • No Credit Card Required
  • $100 USD credits for 12 months
  • Requires valid student email

Azure Pricing Calculator

Configure and estimate the costs for Azure products. No Sign-in require. Download an Excel spreadsheet and share with your boss.