Azure has multiple pricing models. It has a model for every type of customer. From free accounts for students and pay-as-you-go accounts for developers to enterprise agreements and cloud solution provider partner models. Apart from these account types, there are add-on pricing and discounts, such as reserved virtual machine instances and the Azure Hybrid Benefit.
Azure pricing models
Azure Hybrid Benefit
When a virtual machine is provisioned on Azure, there are two types of cost are involved. These two costs are the resource cost for running the virtual machine and the operating system license cost. Although Enterprise Agreement customers get some discounts compared to other accounts, Azure provides another offer for them...