Microsoft Azure Hyperscaler
Hyperscalers are organizations that operate massive-scale data centers providing a wide range of cloud computing services, storage, and networking infrastructure to businesses and individuals globally. They are characterized by their ability to achieve economies of scale, offer extreme scalability, and maintain high levels of reliability and efficiency.
About Microsoft Azure
Microsoft Azure was founded as a VPS provider in 2008.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS, Database, Storage and Networking hosting products.
Locations
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- France
- Germany
- India
- Ireland
- Japan
- New Zealand
- Norway
- Poland
- Qatar
- Singapore
- Singapore
- South Africa
- South Korea
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- United Arab Emirates
- United Kingdom
- United States
Services
Block Storage
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Description | IOPS and Throughput prices |
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Product name: Premium SSD v2 $0.081 / GB / month |
Block storage is called "Managed disks" in Azure. Microsoft Azure block storage |
IOPS price:
$0.005 IOPS allowance: 3000 Throughput price per MBps: $0.041 Throughput allowance MBps: 125 MBps |
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Product name: Premium SSD $0.135 / GB / month Prices decrease with disk size. LRS (locally redundant). The price reported here as well as IOPS and throughput allowances are for P15 256GB. |
Called "Managed disks" in Azure. Microsoft Azure block storage |
IOPS allowance:
1100 Max IOPS Burst: 3500 Throughput price per MBps: Throughput allowance MBps: 125 MBps Max Throughput Burst MBps: 170 MBps Max burst duration in seconds: 1800 seconds |
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Product name: Standard SSD $0.075 / GB / month The price reported here as well as IOPS and throughput allowances are for an E15 256GB disk. |
Block storage is called "Managed disks" in Azure. Standard SSD disks are sold in preset sizes. The larger the disk the more IOPS and throughput and the lower the price per GB. Microsoft Azure block storage |
IOPS allowance:
500 Max IOPS Burst: 600 Throughput price per MBps: Throughput allowance MBps: 100 MBps Max Throughput Burst MBps: 150 MBps Max burst duration in seconds: 1800 seconds |
Object Storage
| Price / GB / month | Description | Egress & Request Pricing |
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Product name: Azure Storage Blobs Hot $0.018 / GB / month Hot, General purpose v2, LRS. Price is for first 50TB, cheaper with higher volumes. |
Called "Azure Storage Blobs". Egress and ingress are free for Hot and Premium storage tiers. Microsoft Azure object storage |
Bandwidth Price: Microsoft Azure - Azure Storage Blobs Hot 100,000 reads: $0.050 100,000 writes: $0.650 |
Network
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged Free allowance: 100 GB / month Product range: Prices are from North America, Europe to any destination.
Transfer pool: yes
Routed through Microsoft Premium Global Network.
Microsoft Azure networking |
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged Free allowance: 100 GB / month Transfer pool: yes
Network egress pricing for Microsoft Azure Object Storage (Azure Storage Blobs Hot)
Microsoft Azure networking |
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged Free allowance: 100 GB / month Product range: From North America, Europe to any destination
Transfer pool: yes
Routed via Routing preference transit ISP network
Microsoft Azure networking |
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Managed Databases
This is for a managed stand-alone on-demand Postgresql instance running in us-east on a 8 cores 32GB server unless mentioned otherwise. Reported storage is capacity pricing per GB per month. IOPS and thhroughput costs might be extra.
| Name | Pricing |
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Azure Database for PostgreSQL flexible server Variant: Postgresql flexible server |
Instance Type: D8ads v5 ($0.712 / hour) Storage Type: Premium SSD ($0.115 / month / GB) |
Load Balancers
This is the pricing for a regional layer 7 load balancer running in us-east or central.
There are two pricing models for load balancers: Data Volume based and LCU based. The former is the most simple, you are charged primarily by the amount of data that goes in and out of the load balancer.
LCUs (Load Capacity Unit) measure the highest usage across a number of dimensions, usually new connections, active connections, processed bytes, and rule evaluations. The LCU includes a defined capacity in each of those dimensions and you are charged based on the maximum usage among these dimensions per hour. For example if one LCU includes a maximum of 1000 active connections and your usage was 12000 at one point during the hour, you are charged for 12 LCUs.
In all pricing models a base hourly price is added to the LCU or data processing cost.
Data transfer charges are extra unless mentioned otherwise. See network traffic for network prices.
| Name | Pricing | Limits |
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Azure Load Balancer Variant: Standard Load Balancer |
Pricing Model: Data Volume Hourly charge: $0.025 / hour Data processing charge: $0.005 / GB SSL Termination: yes Network traffic charged extra: yes |
Max Forwarding Rules: 5 |
Instance Types
Cloud Server Plans
See all plans| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Dds v5 |
The Ddsv5 series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. The Ddv5 and Ddsv5 virtual machine sizes feature high performance, large local SSD storage (up to 3,600 GiB) and provide a better value proposition for most general-purpose workloads compared to the prior generation (e.g., increased scalability and an upgraded CPU class).
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Das v5 |
The Das v5-series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor's frequency can achieve up to 3.5GHz. The Das v5 VM sizes offer a combination of vCPUs and memory able to meet the requirements associated with most production workloads.
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Da v4 |
The Dav4 and Dasv4 Azure VM-series provide up to 96 vCPUs, 384 GiBs of RAM and 2,400 GiBs of SSD-based temporary storage and feature the AMD EPYC™ 7452 processor.
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/series/
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| Family: Memory optimized Instance Type: Eads v5 |
The Eads v5-series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor has base frequency of 2.55Ghz and can achieve up to 3.7 GHz. The Eads v5 VM sizes feature up to 672 GiB of RAM, high performance, and large local SSD storage (up to 3,600 GiB.) These virtual machines are ideal for memory-intensive enterprise applications, relational database servers, and in-memory analytics workloads.
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Dd v4 |
The Ddv4 series virtual machines are based on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL processor. This custom processor runs at a base speed of 2.5Ghz and can achieve up to 3.4Ghz all core turbo frequency. The Ddv4/Ddsv4 virtual machine sizes feature fast, large local SSD storage (up to 2,400 GiB) and are well suited for applications that benefit from low latency, high-speed local storage.
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
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| Family: Compute optimized Instance Type: Fs v2 |
The Fsv2-series virtual machines provide 2-GiB of RAM and 8 GB of local temporary storage (SSD) per vCPU(s) and are optimized for compute intensive workloads. The Fsv2-series VMs are hyper-threaded and based on the Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8272CL (second generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors), or the Intel Xeon® Platinum 8168 (Skylake) processor.
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Bs |
Bs-series are economical virtual machines that provide a low-cost option for workloads that typically run at a low to moderate baseline CPU performance, but sometimes need to burst to significantly higher CPU performance when the demand rises. These workloads don’t require the use of the full CPU all the time, but occasionally will need to burst to finish some tasks more quickly. Many applications such as development and test servers, low traffic web servers, small databases, micro services, servers for proof-of-concepts, build servers, and code repositories fit into this model.
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Dads v5 |
The Dads v5-series virtual machines are based on the 3rd Generation AMD EPYCTM 7763v (Milan) processor. This processor's frequency can achieve up to 3.5GHz. The Dads v5 virtual machine sizes feature high performance, large local SSD storage (up to 3,600 GiB) and provide a better value proposition for most general-purpose workloads compared to the prior Das v4 VM generation (e.g., more local SSD capacity and faster local disk IOPS).
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/#pricing
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Dplds v5 |
The Dplsv5-series and Dpldsv5-series virtual machines are based on the Arm architecture, delivering outstanding price-performance for general-purpose workloads. These virtual machines feature the Ampere® Altra® Arm-based processor operating at 3.0 GHz, which provides an entire physical core for each virtual machine vCPU. These virtual machines offer a range of vCPU sizes, up to 2 GiB of memory per vCPU, and temporary storage options able to meet the requirements of most non-memory-intensive and scale-out workloads such as microservices, small databases, caches, gaming servers, and more.
Provider page for instance type:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/dplsv5-dpldsv5-series
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Dpl v6 |
The Dplsv6-series virtual machines are powered by Azure’s first-generation Cobalt 100 processor, delivering outstanding performance for general-purpose workloads. The Azure Cobalt 100 processor operates at 3.4 GHz and provides an entire physical core for each virtual machine vCPU. These virtual machines offer 2 GiB of memory per vCPU and a wide range of vCPU sizes.
Provider page for instance type:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/general-purpose/dpsv6-series
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| Family: General purpose compute Instance Type: Ds v5 |
The Dv5 and Ddv5 series virtual machines feature the 3rd Generation Intel® Xeon® Platinum 8370C (Ice Lake) processor in a hyper-threaded configuration. They can scale up to 96 vCPUs with configurations similar to the Dv4 and Ddv4 series VMs.
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/series/
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| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: Dads v6 |
The Azure Dadsv6-series virtual machines are based on AMD's 4th Generation EPYC™ 9004 processors with a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7GHz. They offer a combination of vCPU, memory, and fast local NVMe temporary storage, making them suitable for most production workloads. Configurations are available with up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM. Disk storage is billed separately.
Provider page for instance type:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/general-purpose/dadsv6-series?tabs=sizebasic
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| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: Dadsv6 |
Dadsv6-series Azure VMs utilize AMD's 4th Generation EPYC™ 9004 processors, achieving a boosted maximum frequency of 3.7GHz. These virtual machines offer a combination of vCPU, memory, and fast local NVMe temporary storage suitable for most production workloads. They are available in sizes up to 96 vCPU and 384 GiB of RAM and support various disk types, although disk storage is billed separately.
Provider page for instance type:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/general-purpose/dadsv6-series?tabs=sizebasic
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| Family: General Purpose Instance Type: Das v6 |
The Azure Dasv6-series Virtual Machines are a general-purpose offering utilizing AMD's 4th Generation EPYC™ 9004 processors, capable of reaching boosted frequencies of up to 3.7GHz. These VMs provide a balance of vCPU and memory suitable for most production workloads, with configurations scaling up to 96 vCPUs and 384 GiB of RAM. They offer a compelling value proposition for workloads that do not necessitate local temporary storage.
Provider page for instance type:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/general-purpose/dasv6-series
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| Instance Type: Other |
No description
Provider page for instance type:
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GPU Plans
| Plan | GPU | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Hourly Price |
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| Family: GPU compute Instance Type: NCasT4_v3 |
The NCasT4_v3-series virtual machines are powered by Nvidia Tesla T4 GPUs and AMD EPYC 7V12(Rome) CPUs. The VMs feature up to 4 NVIDIA T4 GPUs with 16 GB of memory each, up to 64 non-multithreaded AMD EPYC 7V12 (Rome) processor cores(base frequency of 2.45 GHz, all-cores peak frequency of 3.1 GHz and single-core peak frequency of 3.3 GHz) and 440 GiB of system memory.
Provider page for instance type:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/ncast4v3-series
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| Family: GPU Compute Instance Type: NCsv3 |
NCv3-series VMs are powered by NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs. From 6 to 24 Intel Xeon E5-2690 v4 vCPUs.
Provider page for instance type:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/machine-learning/
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| Family: GPU Compute Instance Type: NVv3 |
The NVv3-series virtual machines are powered by NVIDIA Tesla M60 GPUs and NVIDIA GRID technology with Intel E5-2690 v4 (Broadwell) CPUs and Intel Hyper-Threading Technology. These virtual machines are targeted for GPU accelerated graphics applications and virtual desktops where customers want to visualize their data, simulate results to view, work on CAD, or render and stream content
Provider page for instance type:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes/gpu-accelerated/nv-family
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