2019-12-31T09:39:00Z

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Azure Stack?

Miriam Tover - PeerSpot reviewer
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AD
Real User
Top 10
2023-10-03T06:01:17Z
Oct 3, 2023

Azure stands out for its flexibility with pay-as-you-go options.

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BK
Real User
Top 20
2023-09-08T06:02:00Z
Sep 8, 2023

The licensing costs are expensive. I pay on a monthly basis. We pay through our managed partner. So, it's bundled with other services provided by our partner.

Óscar  Manuel - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2023-09-06T08:55:00Z
Sep 6, 2023

Azure itself is not very pricey since the most expensive parts are hardware and hardware support. We use a consumption-based model and it does not have a fixed time, we just pay for how long we use it. The cost of it depends on the workload. The starting price is $6 per vCPU for a Linux VM monthly, or $34 per vCPU per month for Windows machines.

PB
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-08-07T12:50:28Z
Aug 7, 2023

In some cases, it's difficult to calculate the licensing costs. All the cost is the big picture there because this concerns the capacity of Azure Stack and Azure Service as well. it's a pay-as-you-go model. So, it has some concerns to define the cost.

JR
Real User
Top 20
2023-06-21T08:27:00Z
Jun 21, 2023

Pricing depends on the solutions which we build on. IaaS’s pricing is high. Other services might be competitive.

RA
Real User
Top 20
2023-06-14T12:42:00Z
Jun 14, 2023

The product is expensive, but it is fine for the value that the solution produces.

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SC
Real User
Top 20
2023-05-11T06:16:00Z
May 11, 2023

It is not a cost-friendly solution. I rate it a seven for pricing.

Darryl Thompson - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 5Leaderboard
2023-05-03T12:47:00Z
May 3, 2023

Azure Stack has an annual licensing fee, which is very expensive. We pay service costs to the integrator or the partner to support and maintain Azure Stack.

JL
Real User
Top 20
2022-12-01T10:59:44Z
Dec 1, 2022

Pricing could be improved so I rate it an eight out of ten.

BJ
Real User
Top 20
2022-10-25T10:08:58Z
Oct 25, 2022

The solution saves us money but is more costly than other products such as AWS. We have been paying 10 crores for our Azure services.

OA
Real User
Top 5
2022-09-27T17:25:00Z
Sep 27, 2022

The licensing is pay-as-you-go, and Azure also provides a bring-your-own-license. I believe that is a good option if anyone is looking at it and they already have a license. They can get the infrastructure and the provision in a very short time and it will save the existing licenses. Different applications will have different licensing needs. It depends on which tool you use. You will then need to secure that license.

AA
Real User
Top 20
2022-08-11T16:00:48Z
Aug 11, 2022

The licensing model of Azure Stack is complicated. The solution is expensive.

Cariappa M - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2022-06-16T15:24:36Z
Jun 16, 2022

I would rate the pricing 4 out of 5. It could be lower.

Prannay Srivastava - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 20
2022-05-24T11:09:07Z
May 24, 2022

Azure is reasonably priced compared to Google Cloud, AWS, or some other cloud giants.

Crispus  Ombogo - PeerSpot reviewer
Reseller
Top 20
2022-04-27T16:47:25Z
Apr 27, 2022

In terms of pricing, my customers believe AWS is slightly more reasonably priced than Azure. They believe it is significantly less expensive than what Azure offers. It is simply a matter of pricing.

Chetan Jayatheertha - PeerSpot reviewer
MSP
Top 10
2022-04-25T09:34:00Z
Apr 25, 2022

Azure has a subscription version. It has a pay-as-you-go subscription with a subscription ID. So, you have your particular subscription with an enterprise agreement. There is a dev-type subscription for development and testing. The pricing seems pretty reasonable. The pricing could be per resource. For example, you have Databricks, Data Factory, Scaled DB, and Cosmos. You have everything in Azure. They have an Azure pricing calculator that you can use to check the price of every resource. It gives you a proper cost estimation. You can compare the cost and then go for the best resource for your project.

Robert Urech - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2022-02-23T20:21:16Z
Feb 23, 2022

Azure is relatively expensive, but on the other hand, you get excellent support, stability, and security, so I think it's worth it.

MA
Real User
2021-12-23T14:38:00Z
Dec 23, 2021

The price of Azure Stack is higher relative to other solutions.

Mustafa Kavcioglu - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
Top 10
2021-10-20T14:24:18Z
Oct 20, 2021

I believe our license is yearly.

TC
Real User
2021-09-02T16:02:15Z
Sep 2, 2021

The licensing is one of the solution's most attractive features. Subscription model customers need not make large expenditures on upfront purchasing. A customer must purchase the software needed for Microsoft support, if he wishes to have this. This would incur a monthly fee. But, the upcoming Azure Stack HCl, which is hybrid cloud, does not involve an upfront purchase, only a subscription-based fee.

VV
Real User
2020-11-18T17:25:00Z
Nov 18, 2020

Commercially, Azure Stack is cheaper than AWS.

MA
Real User
2020-09-10T07:35:00Z
Sep 10, 2020

Azure Stack is expensive.

AR
Real User
2020-09-06T08:04:00Z
Sep 6, 2020

In terms of costs, it is a standard price, and there is no negotiation.

MA
Real User
2020-08-30T08:33:30Z
Aug 30, 2020

The pricing is very expensive. If I were rating it on cost then it would be a five out of ten.

AA
Real User
Top 20
2020-08-19T07:57:00Z
Aug 19, 2020

It is in the medium range cost-wise. For each component, I sort of buy licensing. Each component has its licensing fee by the number of users or by size.

VL
Real User
2020-06-17T10:56:03Z
Jun 17, 2020

We are satisfied with the pricing.

IS
Real User
2020-04-08T06:36:56Z
Apr 8, 2020

The price of using Azure Stack for OCR is more expensive than using OCR by Google.

OO
Real User
2020-01-27T06:39:00Z
Jan 27, 2020

The pricing of the solution is quite fair. It's not too expensive.

it_user1255440 - PeerSpot reviewer
Real User
2019-12-31T09:39:00Z
Dec 31, 2019

If we are trying to deploy the Microsoft suite, first of all, we need to buy the data center licenses. Datacenter licenses are only used for verification solutions. Using that as a solution, we can declare an unlimited number of four VMs on the hardware. I spent a contribution to the hardware, the code, and the processes, and that all depends on the hardware architecture.

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