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The way Microsoft does enterprise price bundling, this is not surprising at all.

SOLAR_FIELDS 4y ago
They are insanely good at onboarding people onto it as well. I have a small startup just me and a cofounder right now and we pay $12 a month for 365 which includes all of Azure AD. Can start doing full integrations right away to lock us in.
- eastbound 4y ago
  This is awesome! I went 6 times to Microsoft AD’s pricing page and I could never figure out how much it would be! Then I remembered it would be bundled with Azure, which, like any cloud, has the “It’s 0.0062$ per unit of consumption, so sometimes it’s 2€ per month, sometimes it’s 647€, we never know ourselves, good luck!” effect. Has anyone else sometimes avoided a cloud service because the pricing was opaque?
  - vinay_ys 4y ago
    They are much nicer in recent years and are quite transparent with pricing – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compare-microsoft-365-enterprise-plans https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compare-micros... See full pdf for all plans: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2139145 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2139145 Basically if you have a Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise license (E3 or E5 license – which you need if have business people in your company who can't live without Excel on desktop), you get Azure AD Premium (P1 or P2) bundled for free. As I was writing this comment I just went looking at their AD page and found they have launched a new thing called Entra which includes Decentralized ID. And there's a white paper – interesting.
    - logifail 4y ago
      > you get Azure AD Premium (P1 or P2) bundled for free Last time I checked what was included with Azure AD the activity logging data was where it looked like things could get expensive. Exporting your authentication logs and/or keeping them for more than a week was a premium add-on.
      - pid-1 4y ago
        M365 Business Premium includes P1 and costs 22 USD per user. You also get MDM (Intune) and other security related stuff.
- FreakLegion 4y ago
  Be sure and look into Microsoft for Startups at some point: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups. It gets you Office and GitHub Enterprise for free, among other things.

They are insanely good at onboarding people onto it as well. I have a small startup just me and a cofounder right now and we pay $12 a month for 365 which includes all of Azure AD. Can start doing full integrations right away to lock us in.

eastbound 4y ago
This is awesome! I went 6 times to Microsoft AD’s pricing page and I could never figure out how much it would be! Then I remembered it would be bundled with Azure, which, like any cloud, has the “It’s 0.0062$ per unit of consumption, so sometimes it’s 2€ per month, sometimes it’s 647€, we never know ourselves, good luck!” effect. Has anyone else sometimes avoided a cloud service because the pricing was opaque?
- vinay_ys 4y ago
  They are much nicer in recent years and are quite transparent with pricing – https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compare-microsoft-365-enterprise-plans https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/compare-micros... See full pdf for all plans: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2139145 https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/p/?linkid=2139145 Basically if you have a Microsoft Office 365 Enterprise license (E3 or E5 license – which you need if have business people in your company who can't live without Excel on desktop), you get Azure AD Premium (P1 or P2) bundled for free. As I was writing this comment I just went looking at their AD page and found they have launched a new thing called Entra which includes Decentralized ID. And there's a white paper – interesting.
  - logifail 4y ago
    > you get Azure AD Premium (P1 or P2) bundled for free Last time I checked what was included with Azure AD the activity logging data was where it looked like things could get expensive. Exporting your authentication logs and/or keeping them for more than a week was a premium add-on.
    - pid-1 4y ago
      M365 Business Premium includes P1 and costs 22 USD per user. You also get MDM (Intune) and other security related stuff.
FreakLegion 4y ago
Be sure and look into Microsoft for Startups at some point: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/startups. It gets you Office and GitHub Enterprise for free, among other things.