About the pricing, it is expensive. Maintaining Azure Stack Hub is not easy because it is expensive, though it depends on customer to customer. If the customer is looking for a secure, compliant cloud, I really recommend Azure Resource Manager. However, as a provider, I am looking for complete unification with all multi-cloud in the backend. I want to have consolidation of all cloud systems. The challenge is that Microsoft does not provide any plugins to integrate with any other cloud.
Regarding licensing costs, if we talk about the Azure license or the subscription-based license offered separately by Microsoft, there is a huge difference, as the Azure pay-as-you-go model lets users stop services anytime and they can charge based on utilization. For a core-based license in Azure, it is approximately 11,000, while separate licenses procured from Microsoft with software assurance are about 22 or 25,000 per year, showing the difference but still adhering to the pay-as-you-go model.
The Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is the service used to provision resources in your Azure subscription. It was first announced at Build 2014 when the new Azure portal ( portal.azure.com ) was announced and provides a new set of API's that are used to provision resources.
About the pricing, it is expensive. Maintaining Azure Stack Hub is not easy because it is expensive, though it depends on customer to customer. If the customer is looking for a secure, compliant cloud, I really recommend Azure Resource Manager. However, as a provider, I am looking for complete unification with all multi-cloud in the backend. I want to have consolidation of all cloud systems. The challenge is that Microsoft does not provide any plugins to integrate with any other cloud.
Regarding licensing costs, if we talk about the Azure license or the subscription-based license offered separately by Microsoft, there is a huge difference, as the Azure pay-as-you-go model lets users stop services anytime and they can charge based on utilization. For a core-based license in Azure, it is approximately 11,000, while separate licenses procured from Microsoft with software assurance are about 22 or 25,000 per year, showing the difference but still adhering to the pay-as-you-go model.
We pay $15,000 to $20,000 a month for the service and it is worth the cost.
The solution is open-source.
We have a third party license.