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# 3.1.4 Estimate Workload Costs

How to estimate workload cost with pricing calculator.

The pricing calculator can be found [here](https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/).

Before running the pricing calculator, you need a sense of what is needed. For a basic web app hosted in your data centre this could be:

An ASP.NET web app running on Windows. Web app provides info about product inventory and pricing. There are two VMs connected via a central load balancer. The web app connects to a SQL server database holding inventory and pricing info.

To migrate to Azure, you might:

* Use Azure VMs
* Use Azure app gateway for load balancing
* Use Azure SQL database to hold inventory and pricing info

Some basic requirements are:

* App is used internally only
* App doesn't require a huge amount of compute
* The VMs run all the time (730 hours per month)
* The network processes about 1TB of data per month
* Requires no more than 32GB of storage