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> It is CRAZY expensive and the pricing is not really transparent - in our case we had 20 MB of data, 4 1000RUs collections and multi-master write in Western a

by pm90 8y ago

> It is CRAZY expensive and the pricing is not really transparent - in our case we had 20 MB of data, 4 1000RUs collections and multi-master write in Western and Northern Europe. The monthly bill? 300 EUR even though Azure Portal was displaying 1/6 of that cost - apparently for multi-master you multiply by the number of regions + 1 (2+1 = 3) and for geo-redundancy only by the number of regions (2), thus the 6x higher cost. The result of that was that we were paying several times more to manage 20MB of data than for all the remaining data - hundreds of GB. I get your point and they should definitely fix either the cost calculation, or paste a disclaimer for multi-region pricing. But I want to (sincerely) ask how you could assume that multi region would _not_ cost more than single region.

llcoolv 8y ago
You are perfectly correct, but I assumed that for 2 regions it would cost twice the amount, not 6 times.
- rnehme 8y ago
  Hi, I am from Cosmos DB engineering team. Thank you for the feedback! We have published a number of documents on pricing transparency and cost optimization of your Cosmos DB cost that we want to make sure everyone is aware of: [1] Pricing model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-pricing-works https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-pricing... [2] Optimize cost for your dev/test workloads - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-dev-test https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-de... [3] Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/total-cost-ownership https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/total-cost-... [4] Understand your bill - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/understand-your-bill https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/understand-... [5] Optimize provisioned throughput cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-throughput https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [6] Optimize query cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-queries https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [7] Optimize storage cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-storage https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [8] Optimize reads and writes cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-reads-writes https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [9] Optimize multi-regions cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-regions https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [10] Optimize with reserved capacity - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/cosmos-db-reserved-capacity https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/cosmos-db-r... If you have any questions regarding pricing, please feel free to reach out to us directly at AskCosmosDB@microsoft.com (direct line to the product team). We do really appreciate the feedback. Thank you.

by pm90 8y ago

llcoolv 8y ago

You are perfectly correct, but I assumed that for 2 regions it would cost twice the amount, not 6 times.

rnehme 8y ago
Hi, I am from Cosmos DB engineering team. Thank you for the feedback! We have published a number of documents on pricing transparency and cost optimization of your Cosmos DB cost that we want to make sure everyone is aware of: [1] Pricing model - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-pricing-works https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/how-pricing... [2] Optimize cost for your dev/test workloads - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-dev-test https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-de... [3] Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/total-cost-ownership https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/total-cost-... [4] Understand your bill - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/understand-your-bill https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/understand-... [5] Optimize provisioned throughput cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-throughput https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [6] Optimize query cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-queries https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [7] Optimize storage cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-storage https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [8] Optimize reads and writes cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-reads-writes https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [9] Optimize multi-regions cost - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-cost-regions https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/optimize-co... [10] Optimize with reserved capacity - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/cosmos-db-reserved-capacity https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cosmos-db/cosmos-db-r... If you have any questions regarding pricing, please feel free to reach out to us directly at AskCosmosDB@microsoft.com (direct line to the product team). We do really appreciate the feedback. Thank you.