Cost Saving Tip
An In-depth Look at Azure Functions Pricing
Azure Functions pricing decoded: Consumption, Premium, and Dedicated plans — when each model wins and what triggers unexpected cost surprises.
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Cost Saving Tip
Azure Functions pricing decoded: Consumption, Premium, and Dedicated plans — when each model wins and what triggers unexpected cost surprises.
Pricing
Pay-as-You-Go, Reserved Instances, and Spot — the three Azure pricing models compared, with guidance on which fits which workload.
Cost Saving Tip
Azure Free Tier explained: 12 months of free services, a 30-day starter credit, and the products that stay free forever — what each tier covers.
Virtual Machines
Azure VM pricing decoded: six VM families, regional variation, OS licensing, and the commitment models that shape what each instance actually costs.
Cost Saving Tip
Three Azure savings programs that stack on top of reservations: Hybrid Benefit, Dev/Test pricing, and the AWS price-match. What each applies to.
Pricing
Azure networking costs decoded: how Virtual Network, VPN Gateway, and bandwidth charges are calculated, and where teams typically overpay.
Cost Saving Tip
Unpacking Azure Storage pricing — blob tiers, redundancy options, transaction fees, and the line items teams most often misjudge.
Savings Plans
Azure Savings Plan vs Reserved Instance: a head-to-head on flexibility, discount depth, and the workload profiles each commitment model rewards.
Cloud Computing
Capital expense vs operating expense — the trade-offs behind on-prem CapEx and cloud OpEx, and which model wins for which kind of organisation.
Cloud Computing
Data lake vs data warehouse: storage formats, query patterns, governance models, and which workloads belong in each.