Exercise 1 – using the Azure Pricing calculator – Azure Cost Planning and Management

Jun 12, 2023

Exercise 1 – using the Azure Pricing calculator – Azure Cost Planning and Management

Exercise 1 – using the Azure Pricing calculator

In this exercise, you will create a price estimate with the Azure Pricing calculator; the estimate will be for a simple single-instance Windows VM hosted in the North Europe (Dublin) region.

Task – accessing the Azure Pricing calculator

1. Open a browser and sign into the Azure pricing calculator using your Microsoft account: https://azure.microsoft.com/pricing/calculator.

Task – adding a VM to the estimate

2. From the products tab, click Virtual Machines.
3. Scroll down to the VM line item that has been added to the estimate.
4. Adjust the default VM settings to the following for this exercise (or as required):

• • Region: North Europe.
  • Operating System: Windows.
  • Type: (OS only).
  • Tier: Standard.
  • Category: General purpose.
  • Instance Series: Dds v4-series (or as required).
  • Instance: D2ds v4 (or as required).
  • Virtual Machines: Leave as qty of 1 and running for 730 hours.

5. Leave Savings options as is.
6. Expand Managed Disks and adjust the default settings to the following for this exercise:

• • Tier: Premium SSD
  • Disk Size: S15: 256 GiB
  • Disks (qty): 1

7. Leave Storage Transactions as is.
8. Expand Bandwidth and adjust the default settings to the following for this exercise:

• • Data transfer type: Internet egress
  • Source region: North Europe
  • Routed via: Microsoft Global Network
  • Outbound data transfer: 10 GiB

9. Leave Support as is.
10. Leave Programmes and Offers as is.
11. From the bottom right of the estimate screen, set the currency as required.

Task – saving, exporting, and sharing the estimate

12. From the bottom left of the Estimate screen, click Save as and enter a name for your estimate.
13. You will see a message stating that the estimate has been saved and that it can be viewed by clicking on the Saved estimates tab. Click Done.
14. To export the estimate, click Export.
15. To share the estimate, click Share.

In this exercise, we created an estimate for an Azure resource to be used in a solution using the Azure Pricing calculator. In the next exercise, we will use the TCO calculator.