Azure pricing for UK engineers
The scenarios Microsoft's calculator handles poorly — in GBP, updated nightly.
The 2TB restore minimum
Restoring even 1 byte of archived Log Analytics data costs a minimum of £204. The restore job consumes 2TB regardless of actual size.
Calculate restore cost →lanNAT Gateway has no pause state
An idle NAT Gateway charges £33/month until deleted. Unlike a VM, there's no deallocate option — billing only stops on deletion.
Estimate networking cost →savingsCommitment tier break-even
At 85 GB/day, the 100 GB/day Log Analytics commitment tier saves £847/month vs PAYG. Most teams stay on PAYG past the break-even point.
Find your break-even →Blob Storage
Hot, Cool, Cold and Archive tiers · LRS/GRS/ZRS
App Service
B/P/S tiers, Windows/Linux, Shared and Dedicated
Azure Functions
Consumption, Premium, and Dedicated plans
Logic Apps
Consumption and Standard pricing models
Virtual Machines
Pay-as-you-go and commitment-based pricing
Bandwidth
Egress, inter-region, and ExpressRoute costs
Log Analytics & Sentinel
Ingestion tiers, search, restore, and commitment
Networking
VNet, NAT Gateway, Load Balancer, VPN costs
Data Factory
Pipeline execution, data movement, integration runtime
Virtual Desktop
Per-user and external licensing costs
Front Door
Standard and Premium SKUs, requests and data
SQL Database
Serverless, Elastic Pool, and Dedicated options
Azure Firewall
Premium and Standard, threat intelligence, DNS proxy
Azure OpenAI
gpt-4o, gpt-4o-mini, o3-mini token pricing
Managed Disks
Premium, Standard, and Ultra disk types
Key Vault
Secrets, keys, certificates, and operations
Azure DevOps
Pipelines, test plans, and user licensing
Site Recovery
VMware, Hyper-V, and Azure VM replication
Azure Kubernetes Service
Compute, storage, networking, and load balancing
SQL Managed Instance
Compute, storage, and licensing per core
Application Gateway
Standard v2 and WAF v2 pricing
VPN Gateway
Basic, Standard, and High Performance SKUs
Azure Bastion
Hourly compute and data transfer costs
Azure Backup
Protected instance and backup storage pricing
Prices sourced from the Azure Retail Prices API, updated nightly.
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