3.1.4 Estimate Workload Costs

How to estimate workload cost with pricing calculator.

The pricing calculator can be found here.

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