Delivery Manager at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees
Real User
Top 10
Apr 25, 2025
Our experience with pricing has been positive. The budget for Microsoft Azure services has been within expectations for the last couple of months. The cost for Azure Data Factory ( /products/azure-data-factory-reviews ), utilized for intensive data migration, was high but expected, as it's a one-time activity.
I rate the product price as seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price and ten means high price. The tool is expensive. There are no additional costs attached to the product, so it is available at a fixed price.
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The price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage has a fair price. However, the price could be lower. I rate the price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage a seven out of ten.
Senior Software Engineer at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Mar 9, 2023
The price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is expensive. They should provide a more efficient cost. I rate the price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage a six out of ten.
Solution Architect at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Real User
Feb 13, 2023
The price depends on the requirement. If the data is critical, you must deploy block storage. But if it is not that critical, you can choose cheaper storage options. I rate the pricing for Microsoft Azure Block Storage a two out of ten.
The pricing for Microsoft Azure Block Storage is high because of MSA and SBA contracts, where Microsoft takes care of the security aspects, apart from the maintenance, and Microsoft has service level agreements with the customers. On the other hand, AWS requires you to purchase items independently, so my company only typically refers Microsoft Azure Block Storage to other clients if the client signed an MSA with Microsoft. Both Microsoft Azure Block Storage and AWS cost hundreds of dollars. The licensing for Microsoft Azure Block Storage is yearly. How much you pay depends on the amount of storage. Microsoft will start charging you from $100 to a few hundred per month, depending on how much you're trying to store. Microsoft Azure Block Storage has hundreds of items inside, so each item has its own cost.
IT consultant at a sports company with 201-500 employees
Consultant
Nov 28, 2022
Moving from a lower tier to a higher tier license requires additional payment and is expensive. When you have some Block Store in the archive tier and you want to get it back to the hot or cold tier, it's too expensive.
The solution requires an input-output operations fee as well as pay per gigabyte of storage. The solution also offers a quicker hard drive option and a higher bandwidth output for an additional cost.
I rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the highest and one being the lowest. The price could be slightly lower because there has not been a price revision. They should revise prices, but they've not done that. Since we captured enough markets, they don't care anymore.
Azure Block Storage pricing charges differently for hot and cold storage based on our business scenario. For example, data that isn't frequently accessed costs less. Data that is accessed often costs more. Storage on the cloud is cheaper.
Azure Block Storage is higher priced than its competitors. It is costly. The pricing is difficult to calculate as there are different tiers to select from.
Director - Infrastructure Solution Architect at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Sep 27, 2020
In terms of pricing, Azure is quite cheaper than AWS. However, I have recently read that Oracle Cloud Generation 2 storage is quite cheaper than Azure. I haven't used it yet. We need to look at a customer's requirements, and, based on that, we can suggest the storage. You can save at least 20% with Azure as compared to AWS, which is quite costly.
For the first 50DB, they cost around $50. It's an open solution for everybody. Anybody can go to the Microsoft website and they can get the pricing for it. But the first 50GB of data is a default rate and then it increases for the next 500GB or something like that. It is a pay as you go solution. The more you use, the more you pay. That's normally how you pay for any cloud solutions.
The pricing is pay-as-you-go, so it runs on credit. The more storage a company has, the more they pay. If you are putting data into an archive, it doesn't cost too much, but if you need to access it, the price may be a bit high.
Product Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees
Reseller
Jan 12, 2020
The solution is affordable and we only pay for what we use. There are additional costs for backup and disaster management and we use separate products as service providers.
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Our experience with pricing has been positive. The budget for Microsoft Azure services has been within expectations for the last couple of months. The cost for Azure Data Factory ( /products/azure-data-factory-reviews ), utilized for intensive data migration, was high but expected, as it's a one-time activity.
Pricing could be rated as eight out of ten. It is reasonable, however, it can be cheaper.
I rate the solution's pricing a seven out of ten.
The product's pricing is reasonable, but premium applications can be costly.
Microsoft Azure Block Storage is expensive. Its licensing costs are monthly.
I rate the product price as seven on a scale of one to ten, where one means low price and ten means high price. The tool is expensive. There are no additional costs attached to the product, so it is available at a fixed price.
It is a pay-per-use model. There are no additional costs associated with the product.
The product is costlier than Amazon S3.
I use Microsoft Azure Block Storage's free version.
The price of scaling the solution is not expensive.
The price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage has a fair price. However, the price could be lower. I rate the price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage a seven out of ten.
The price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is expensive. They should provide a more efficient cost. I rate the price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage a six out of ten.
The price depends on the requirement. If the data is critical, you must deploy block storage. But if it is not that critical, you can choose cheaper storage options. I rate the pricing for Microsoft Azure Block Storage a two out of ten.
The pricing for Microsoft Azure Block Storage is high because of MSA and SBA contracts, where Microsoft takes care of the security aspects, apart from the maintenance, and Microsoft has service level agreements with the customers. On the other hand, AWS requires you to purchase items independently, so my company only typically refers Microsoft Azure Block Storage to other clients if the client signed an MSA with Microsoft. Both Microsoft Azure Block Storage and AWS cost hundreds of dollars. The licensing for Microsoft Azure Block Storage is yearly. How much you pay depends on the amount of storage. Microsoft will start charging you from $100 to a few hundred per month, depending on how much you're trying to store. Microsoft Azure Block Storage has hundreds of items inside, so each item has its own cost.
Licensing is paid on a monthly basis and it's on a pay as you use basis.
I would rate the pricing as five out of ten.
Moving from a lower tier to a higher tier license requires additional payment and is expensive. When you have some Block Store in the archive tier and you want to get it back to the hot or cold tier, it's too expensive.
Microsoft Azure Block Storage is an expensive solution and I pay monthly.
The solution requires an input-output operations fee as well as pay per gigabyte of storage. The solution also offers a quicker hard drive option and a higher bandwidth output for an additional cost.
The price of Microsoft Azure Block Storage is less expensive than other solutions on the market, such as Cloud Storage from GCP.
I rate the pricing an eight out of ten, with ten being the highest and one being the lowest. The price could be slightly lower because there has not been a price revision. They should revise prices, but they've not done that. Since we captured enough markets, they don't care anymore.
The price is decent. I rate Azure Block Storage eight out of 10 for affordability.
Azure Block Storage pricing charges differently for hot and cold storage based on our business scenario. For example, data that isn't frequently accessed costs less. Data that is accessed often costs more. Storage on the cloud is cheaper.
There should be a discount on Block Storage for people who use it more often. Right now we pay somewhere around maybe 30,000 rupees monthly.
Azure Block Storage is higher priced than its competitors. It is costly. The pricing is difficult to calculate as there are different tiers to select from.
The solution is pay-as-you-go. We don't have any subscriptions; it is more like an on-demand arrangement.
I think Azure Block Storage is a reasonable price for the amount of storage we're getting.
In terms of pricing, Azure is quite cheaper than AWS. However, I have recently read that Oracle Cloud Generation 2 storage is quite cheaper than Azure. I haven't used it yet. We need to look at a customer's requirements, and, based on that, we can suggest the storage. You can save at least 20% with Azure as compared to AWS, which is quite costly.
For the first 50DB, they cost around $50. It's an open solution for everybody. Anybody can go to the Microsoft website and they can get the pricing for it. But the first 50GB of data is a default rate and then it increases for the next 500GB or something like that. It is a pay as you go solution. The more you use, the more you pay. That's normally how you pay for any cloud solutions.
The pricing is pay-as-you-go, so it runs on credit. The more storage a company has, the more they pay. If you are putting data into an archive, it doesn't cost too much, but if you need to access it, the price may be a bit high.
The solution is affordable and we only pay for what we use. There are additional costs for backup and disaster management and we use separate products as service providers.
Above licensing, Azure does have extra costs, which makes the solution rather pricey.