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What about reserved pricing? I use Azure and that’s significantly cheaper and more compariable to buying your own servers.
by quickthrower2 8y ago
What about reserved pricing? I use Azure and that’s significantly cheaper and more compariable to buying your own servers.
- ocdtrekkie 8y agoIs it though? A dual-core Windows VM with 8 GB of RAM is... 0.037 cents an hour. That works out to 88 cents a day, or $324 per year per VM. If I have about 20 VMs running on a $10,000 server with a $6,000 Windows Server Datacenter license that has a five year warranty, let's math that out: The VMs cost $32,400. And I can spin up more VMs on that server at zero cost, it's not at capacity. Obviously there's plenty of other little dollars and cents you can factor into an equation like this, but I'd argue Azure Reserved Pricing still has it's profit margin well defined.