Summary

Having read this chapter, you should now know how all services integrate, and how you should approach an existing infrastructure and its requirements. You should now be able to identify basic Azure services and compare them to classic on-premises services and server systems.

If you go through such a scenario and you want to get a better understand what could be the estimated costs or what are the Total Costs of Ownership (TCO) and when you are reaching the return of investment, Microsoft offers two tools you can leverage.

Azure Price Calculator

First and from a personal perspective most important tool is the Azure price calculator. With the calculator, you can estimate the costs of your environment, running on Azure.

You can add any kind of Azure service from the product selector shown here:

Change the sizing of the service:

And afterwards, you will get a complete estimate of your solution via web (1) or you can export it as a .csv file(2).

You can find the Azure Price Calculator at https...