The solution is expensive. However, we can choose to get a budget-friendly license. The vendor should offer extensions on the licenses. People are still working on on-premise servers. If we want them to move to the cloud, the vendors must provide competitive prices. We have a couple of small to medium businesses. The solution is not affordable for small businesses.
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Senior Engineering Manager at a wholesaler/distributor with 5,001-10,000 employees
Real User
Top 5
2023-06-29T10:26:27Z
Jun 29, 2023
The pricing can be improved. There is an yearly licensing cost for the solution. There are some reserve instances that are additional to the licensing cost.
DevOps and Cloud Engineer at Neudesic Technologies Private Limited
Real User
Top 10
2022-06-28T11:31:00Z
Jun 28, 2022
Microsoft Azure Object Storage requires a license. We use a pay-as-you-go model and we have an enterprise subscription model as well. The solution is not expensive, however, when compared to other enterprise, pay-as-you-go products, it is priced higher.
Information Technology & Cloud Systems Manager at a hospitality company with 51-200 employees
Real User
Top 20
2022-05-27T19:40:36Z
May 27, 2022
It has a pay-as-you-go model. So, you are only paying for what you store. It's an attractive model. You don't pay for a set; you pay for what you actually use.
Manager-Platform Team / Technical Lead at Sana Commerce
Reseller
Top 5
2022-05-24T16:58:31Z
May 24, 2022
The licensing cost of Microsoft Azure Object Storage is monthly. We have two types of licenses. One is the EA enterprise license and the other is a CSP license.
Owner at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
Real User
2021-03-15T16:28:26Z
Mar 15, 2021
Pricing is always confusing for all Microsoft products. For this solution, they do provide the estimates, but it is not easy to guess the exact amount that we will be billed.
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Our storage capacity is cheap because we have a committed discount.
The tool's licensing costs are annual. It should be made reasonable.
With Microsoft Azure Object Storage, you pay for the data you have stored there. You can download the application from Microsoft free of charge.
The solution is expensive. However, we can choose to get a budget-friendly license. The vendor should offer extensions on the licenses. People are still working on on-premise servers. If we want them to move to the cloud, the vendors must provide competitive prices. We have a couple of small to medium businesses. The solution is not affordable for small businesses.
We don't need to pay for the solution's license.
The solution has a monthly licensing fee.
I would rate the pricing a four out of ten because there is a lot of competition out there.
I rate Azure Blob storage's pricing a seven out of ten. Additional costs depend on the data and complexity of the project.
The pricing can be improved. There is an yearly licensing cost for the solution. There are some reserve instances that are additional to the licensing cost.
Currently, it is a flexible price policy.
Licensing fess are charged monthly.
I can't speak to the exact licensing costs.
Object Storage is competitively priced.
Microsoft Azure Object Storage requires a license. We use a pay-as-you-go model and we have an enterprise subscription model as well. The solution is not expensive, however, when compared to other enterprise, pay-as-you-go products, it is priced higher.
It has a pay-as-you-go model. So, you are only paying for what you store. It's an attractive model. You don't pay for a set; you pay for what you actually use.
The licensing cost of Microsoft Azure Object Storage is monthly. We have two types of licenses. One is the EA enterprise license and the other is a CSP license.
Pricing is always confusing for all Microsoft products. For this solution, they do provide the estimates, but it is not easy to guess the exact amount that we will be billed.
The cost of this solution is high compared to others, although there are no costs in addition to the standard licensing fees.
For the cloud, you get charges every day if you are going to download anything, besides the cost for storage those charges are always there.
We have a separate package and pay extra for additional technical support.
The cost is based on the amount of traffic and we paid approximately 18 lakh Rupees ($25,000 USD) last year.