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Microsoft

Microsoft is a multinational corporation and technology company, best-known for its software products and line of operating systems.

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$61,826
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Microsoft is a multinational corporation and technology company, best-known for its software products and line of operating systems.

Microsoft's 119 Products

Azure AI Bot Service logo
Azure AI Bot Service

Azure AI Bot Service delivers 10,000 free premium channel messages/mo, unlimited standard channel messages, and App Service hosting billed per Azure compute—perfect for large orgs.

Azure AI Content Safety: Free - Web logo
Azure AI Content Safety: Free - Web

Free - Web delivers 5,000 text records/month, 5,000 image analyses/month, and real-time API moderation—perfect for web developers.

Azure AI Content Safety: Standard - Web logo
Azure AI Content Safety: Standard - Web

Standard - Web delivers 5,000 free records/month, $0.38 per 1,000 text calls, and $0.75 per 1,000 image calls—perfect for developers integrating moderation APIs.

Azure AI Custom Vision: Free logo
Azure AI Custom Vision: Free

Free delivers 5,000 training images/project, 10,000 predictions/month, and 2 projects—perfect for developers and ML engineers.

Azure AI Custom Vision: Standard logo
Azure AI Custom Vision: Standard

Standard delivers $1 per 1,000 prediction transactions, $20 per training compute hour, and 100 projects per subscription—perfect for developers and ML teams.

Azure AI Document Intelligence logo
Azure AI Document Intelligence

Extract information quickly, accurately, and tailored to specific contents, without heavy manual intervention or extensive data science expertise.

Azure AI Immersive Reader: Education/Nonprofit	 logo
Azure AI Immersive Reader: Education/Nonprofit

Education/Nonprofit delivers text-to-speech, translation in 70+ languages, and 3M free characters + $5 per 1M overage—perfect for educators and nonprofits.

Azure AI Immersive Reader: Standard logo
Azure AI Immersive Reader: Standard

Standard delivers 3M free characters/month, text-to-speech with word highlighting, and translation to multiple languages—perfect for accessibility and education developers.

Azure AI Language: Free - Web logo
Azure AI Language: Free - Web

Free - Web delivers 5,000 text records/month, 1 free model endpoint, and up to 1 hour free training—perfect for developers.

Azure AI Language: Standard (S) - Web logo
Azure AI Language: Standard (S) - Web

Standard (S) - Web delivers 100+ language detection, named entity recognition, and text summarization—perfect for developers.

Azure AI Personalizer: Free logo
Azure AI Personalizer: Free

Free delivers 50,000 transactions/month free, reinforcement-learning ranking via REST API, and $25/1,000 overage rate—perfect for developers and product teams.

Azure AI Personalizer: S0 logo
Azure AI Personalizer: S0

S0 delivers 50,000 free transactions/month, 10 GB storage per 1M transactions, and $1 per 1,000 transactions for first 1M—perfect for application developers.

Azure AI Search: Basic logo
Azure AI Search: Basic

Basic delivers 1 SU minimum at $73.73/month, 15 GB storage per partition, and 15 indexes per service—perfect for SMBs and dev teams.

Azure AI Search: Free logo
Azure AI Search: Free

Free delivers 50 MB storage, 3 indexes, and 10,000 documents—perfect for developers and prototypers.

Azure AI Search: Standard S1 logo
Azure AI Search: Standard S1

Standard S1 delivers 1 Search Unit with 15 GB storage, up to 9 SUs per service, and 1,000 free semantic ranker requests/month—perfect for app developers.

Azure AI Search: Standard S2 logo
Azure AI Search: Standard S2

Standard S2 delivers 1 search unit included, 160 GB storage per SU, and up to 36 SUs per service—perfect for developers and data teams.

Azure AI Search: Standard S3 logo
Azure AI Search: Standard S3

Standard S3 delivers 1+ Search Units (up to 36 SUs), 200 indexes per service, and 1,000 free semantic ranker requests/month—perfect for web and app developers.

Azure AI Search: Storage Optimized L1 logo
Azure AI Search: Storage Optimized L1

Storage Optimized L1 delivers 1 TB per partition, up to 12 partitions (12 TB) per service, and per-SU monthly pricing—perfect for large-scale search workloads.

Azure AI Search: Storage Optimized L2 logo
Azure AI Search: Storage Optimized L2

Storage Optimized L2 delivers 2 TB/partition storage, up to 36 search units, and $5,604.21 per SU/month—perfect for enterprise search teams.

Azure AI Speech logo
Azure AI Speech

Azure AI Speech provides a wide range of speech recognition and generation capabilities including speech transcription, text-to-speech and speech translation.

Azure AI Translator: F0 - Free logo
Azure AI Translator: F0 - Free

F0 - Free delivers 2M characters/month standard translation, 2M characters/month custom translation, and REST API access—perfect for developers.

Azure AI Translator: S1 – Pay as you go logo
Azure AI Translator: S1 – Pay as you go

S1 – Pay as you go delivers neural translation for 100+ languages, standard translation at $10/1M chars, and document translation at $15/1M chars—perfect for developers.

Azure AI Video Indexer: Free trial account logo
Azure AI Video Indexer: Free trial account

Free trial account delivers 600 min web indexing, 2,400 min API indexing, and REST API & web portal access—perfect for developers and content teams.

Azure AI Video Indexer: Paid unlimited account logo
Azure AI Video Indexer: Paid unlimited account

For larger scale indexing, create a new Video Indexer account connected to a paid Microsoft Azure subscription.

Azure AI Vision: Free (F0) - Web/Container logo
Azure AI Vision: Free (F0) - Web/Container

Free (F0) - Web/Container delivers 5,000 transactions/month, 20 transactions/min rate limit, and Web API + Docker container deployment—perfect for developers.

Azure AI Vision: Standard (S1) - Web/Container logo
Azure AI Vision: Standard (S1) - Web/Container

Standard (S1) - Web/Container delivers $1–$1.50 per 1,000 API calls, $0.05/min video ingestion, and $0.014 per 1,000 text embedding calls—perfect for developers and IT teams.

Azure Analysis Services: Basic logo
Azure Analysis Services: Basic

Basic delivers 40 QPUs/10 GB (B1), 80 QPUs/16 GB (B2), and B1 pricing at $313.90/mo—perfect for small BI teams.

Azure Analysis Services: Developer logo
Azure Analysis Services: Developer

Developer delivers 10 QPUs, 3 GB memory, and Power BI connectivity—perfect for BI developers.

Azure Analysis Services: Standard logo
Azure Analysis Services: Standard

Standard delivers 40–1280 QPUs across S0–S9 v2 SKUs, 10–400GB model memory, and hourly pricing from $0.252–$8.064/hr—perfect for BI teams.

Azure App Service: Basic logo
Azure App Service: Basic

The Basic service plan is designed to run workloads that have low traffic requirements, and do not require advanced auto-scale and traffic management features.

Azure App Service: Environment logo
Azure App Service: Environment

An App Service Environment is an Azure App Service feature that provides a fully isolated and dedicated environment for running App Service apps securely at high scale

Azure App Service: Free logo
Azure App Service: Free

The free plan is intended for trials, experimentation, and learning the service.

Azure App Service: Premium logo
Azure App Service: Premium

Premium delivers 99.99% AZ SLA, P0v4-P5mv4 instance sizes, and IP SSL at $39/cert/mo—perfect for DevOps teams.

Azure Cloud Service: A0 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A0

A0 delivers 1 vCPU, 0.75 GB RAM, and $0.02/hour pricing—perfect for low-traffic web apps.

Azure Cloud Service: A1 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A1

A1 delivers 1 vCPU, 1.75 GB RAM, and 225 GB temporary storage—perfect for small-scale production and development teams.

Azure Cloud Service: A1v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A1v2

A1v2 delivers 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, and 10 GB temporary SSD—perfect for devs and small test workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: A2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A2

A2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 3.5 GB RAM, and 490 GB temp storage—perfect for low-traffic websites and dev/test workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: A2mv2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A2mv2

A2mv2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 500 Mbps network throughput—perfect for dev/test and small web/database workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: A2v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A2v2

A2v2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 4 GiB RAM, and 20 GiB local SSD—perfect for developers and small IT teams.

Azure Cloud Service: A3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A3

A3 delivers 4 vCPU cores, 7 GB RAM, and 1,000 GB temporary storage—perfect for web apps and small databases.

Azure Cloud Service: A4 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A4

A4 delivers 8 CPU cores, 14 GB RAM, and 2,040 GB temporary storage—perfect for mid-sized web apps.

Azure Cloud Service: A4mv2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A4mv2

A4mv2 delivers 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, and $0.40708/hr pricing—perfect for dev/test and small databases.

Azure Cloud Service: A4v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A4v2

A4v2 delivers 4 vCPUs, 8 GB RAM, and 40 GB temporary storage—perfect for developers and DevOps teams.

Azure Cloud Service: A5 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A5

A5 delivers 2 vCPUs, 14 GB RAM, and 490 GB temporary storage—perfect for cloud engineers.

Azure Cloud Service: A6 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A6

A6 delivers 4 vCPU, 28 GB RAM, and 1,000 GB temporary disk—perfect for large databases and SharePoint server farms.

Azure Cloud Service: A7 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A7

A7 delivers 8 vCPU cores, 56 GB RAM, and 2,040 GB temporary storage—perfect for memory-intensive database and SharePoint workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: A8mv2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A8mv2

A8mv2 delivers 8 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, and 80 GB temp SSD—perfect for developers and DevOps teams.

Azure Cloud Service: A8v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: A8v2

A8v2 delivers 8 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 80 GB temporary storage—perfect for dev/test and low-traffic web servers.

Azure Cloud Service: D1 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D1

D1 delivers 1 vCPU, 3.5 GB RAM, and 50 GB temporary storage—perfect for developers and small web apps.

Azure Cloud Service: D1 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D1 v2

D1 v2 delivers 1 vCPU, 3.5 GB RAM, and 50 GB temporary SSD—perfect for web and app developers.

Azure Cloud Service: D11 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D11

D11 delivers 2 vCPUs, 14 GB RAM, and 100 GB temporary storage—perfect for dev/test environments.

Azure Cloud Service: D11 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D11 v2

D11 v2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 14 GiB RAM, and 100 GB temporary SSD—perfect for memory-intensive production workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: D12 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D12

D12 delivers 200 GB temporary SSD, high-memory VM capacity, and Windows/Linux VM support—perfect for large databases and high-throughput services.

Azure Cloud Service: D12 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D12 v2

D12 v2 delivers 4 vCPUs, 28 GB RAM, and 200 GB temporary SSD—perfect for DevOps and IT teams.

Azure Cloud Service: D13 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D13

D13 delivers 8 CPU cores, 56 GB RAM, and 400 GB temporary storage—perfect for large databases and high-throughput workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: D13 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D13 v2

D13 v2 delivers 8 vCPU, 56 GB RAM, and 400 GB SSD—perfect for enterprise IT and data teams.

Azure Cloud Service: D14 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D14

D14 delivers 16 vCPUs, 112 GB RAM, and 800 GB temporary SSD—perfect for large-scale IT and data teams.

Azure Cloud Service: D14 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D14 v2

D14 v2 delivers 16 CPU cores, 112 GB RAM, and 800 GB temporary storage—perfect for large databases and analytics workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: D15 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D15 v2

D15 v2 delivers 20 vCPUs, 140 GB RAM, and $1,926.47/month VM pricing—perfect for memory-intensive workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: D16 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D16 v3

D16 v3 delivers 16 vCPUs, 64 GB RAM, and 400 GB temporary SSD—perfect for IT administrators and DevOps teams.

Azure Cloud Service: D2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D2

D2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 7 GB RAM, and 100 GB temporary storage—perfect for small web apps and development environments.

Azure Cloud Service: D2 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D2 v2

D2 v2 delivers 2 vCPUs, 7 GiB RAM, and 100 GB local SSD—perfect for web and worker role workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: D2 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D2 v3

D2 v3 delivers 2 vCPUs, 8 GiB RAM, and 50 GiB temporary storage—perfect for developers and IT administrators.

Azure Cloud Service: D3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D3

D3 delivers 4 vCPUs, 14 GB RAM, and 200 GB temporary storage—perfect for developers and IT administrators.

Azure Cloud Service: D3 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D3 v2

D3 v2 delivers 4 vCPUs, 14 GB RAM, and 200 GB temporary storage—perfect for mid-market IT and app developers.

Azure Cloud Service: D32 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D32 v3

D32 v3 delivers 32 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, and 800 GB local SSD—perfect for production database and DevOps teams.

Azure Cloud Service: D4 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D4

Azure Cloud Service: D4 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D4 v2

D4 v2 delivers 8 vCPUs, 28 GB RAM, and 400 GB temporary SSD—perfect for cloud-hosted web and worker roles.

Azure Cloud Service: D4 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D4 v3

D4 v3 delivers 4 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 100 GB temporary SSD storage—perfect for enterprise applications and databases.

Azure Cloud Service: D48 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D48 v3

D48 v3 delivers 48 vCPUs, 192 GB memory, and 1,200 GB local SSD—perfect for database and analytics workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: D5 v2 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D5 v2

Azure Cloud Service: D64 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D64 v3

D64 v3 delivers 64 vCPUs, 256 GiB RAM, and 1,600 GiB local SSD—perfect for mid-to-large enterprise application and database workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: D8 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: D8 v3

D8 v3 delivers 8 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, and 200 GiB temporary disk—perfect for enterprise applications.

Azure Cloud Service: E16 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: E16 v3

E16 v3 delivers 16 vCPUs, 128 GB RAM, and 400 GB temporary storage—perfect for memory-intensive workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: E2 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: E2 v3

E2 v3 delivers 2 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM, and 50 GB temporary SSD—perfect for database and analytics workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: E20 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: E20 v3

E20 v3 delivers 20 vCPUs, 160 GB RAM, and 500 GB temporary storage—perfect for SAP HANA and other memory-intensive large-scale workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: E32 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: E32 v3

E32 v3 delivers 32 vCPUs, 256 GiB RAM, and 800 GiB temporary storage—perfect for enterprise IT teams.

Azure Cloud Service: E4 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: E4 v3

E4 v3 delivers 4 vCPUs, 32 GiB RAM, and 100 GB temporary storage—perfect for memory-intensive workloads.

Azure Cloud Service: E48 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: E48 v3

E48 v3 delivers 48 vCPUs, 384 GB RAM, and 1,200 GB temp storage—perfect for memory-intensive production databases.

Azure Cloud Service: E64 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: E64 v3

E64 v3 delivers 64 vCPUs, 432 GB RAM, and 1,600 GB temp SSD—perfect for data engineering and in-memory databases.

Azure Cloud Service: E8 v3 logo
Azure Cloud Service: E8 v3

E8 v3 delivers 8 vCPUs, 64 GiB RAM, and 200 GB temporary disk—perfect for memory-intensive enterprise workloads.

Azure Compute Fleet: Azure savings plan for compute logo
Azure Compute Fleet: Azure savings plan for compute

Save money across select compute services globally by committing to spend a fixed hourly amount for 1 or 3 years, unlocking lower prices until reaching the hourly commitment

Azure Compute Fleet: Pay as you go logo
Azure Compute Fleet: Pay as you go

Pay as you go delivers up to 10,000-VM deployment, Spot/Reserved/Savings Plan pricing blend, and per-second VM billing—perfect for cloud architects.

Azure Compute Fleet: Reserved Instances logo
Azure Compute Fleet: Reserved Instances

Azure Reserved Virtual Machine Instances provide significant cost reduction, compared to pay-as-you-go rates, when committing to one-year or three-year terms.

Azure Compute Fleet: Spot logo
Azure Compute Fleet: Spot

Spot delivers 10,000-VM provisioning, up to 90% Spot discounts, and automatic Spot VM replacement—perfect for cloud architects and DevOps teams.

Azure Container Registry: Basic logo
Azure Container Registry: Basic

Basic delivers 10 GB storage, 1,000 read ops/min, and 100 write ops/min—perfect for developers and small teams.

Azure Container Registry: Premium logo
Azure Container Registry: Premium

Premium delivers $0.667/day registry fee, 500 GB included storage, and geo-replication per region at $0.667/day—perfect for DevOps and platform teams.

Azure Container Registry: Standard logo
Azure Container Registry: Standard

Standard delivers 100 GB storage, 500 write ops/min, and 3,000 read ops/min—perfect for DevOps teams.

Azure Data Catalog: Free logo
Azure Data Catalog: Free

Free delivers 5,000 catalog objects, unlimited users, and REST API registration—perfect for data teams.

Azure Data Catalog: Standard logo
Azure Data Catalog: Standard

Azure Data Catalog: Standard delivers $1/user/month billing, 100,000-asset catalog, and Catalog Search API—perfect for data stewards.

Azure Data Factory V2 logo
Azure Data Factory V2

V2 delivers 90+ connectors, $0.25–$2.00 per activity run, and $1.50–$2.00/vCore-hour Data Flow runtime—perfect for data engineers.

Azure Data Factory: V1 logo
Azure Data Factory: V1

V1 delivers visual pipeline authoring, 90+ connectors, and $1.00 per 1,000 activity runs—perfect for data engineers.

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Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Lake Storage delivers petabyte-scale storage, hierarchical namespace with POSIX ACLs, and Hot/Cool/Archive GB/month tiering—perfect for data engineers.

Azure Databricks: Premium All-Purpose Compute logo
Azure Databricks: Premium All-Purpose Compute

Premium All-Purpose Compute delivers $0.55/DBU-hour runtime, VM billing (e.g., DS13v2 $0.598/hr), and autoscaling clusters—perfect for data science and engineering teams.

Azure Databricks: Premium Jobs Compute logo
Azure Databricks: Premium Jobs Compute

Automated workloads to run fast and robust jobs via API or UI

Azure Databricks: Premium Jobs Light Compute logo
Azure Databricks: Premium Jobs Light Compute

Premium Jobs Light Compute delivers automated job scheduling, $0.22/DBU-hour billing, and managed Spark clusters—perfect for data engineering teams.

Azure Databricks: Standard All-Purpose Compute logo
Azure Databricks: Standard All-Purpose Compute

Includes interactive workloads to analyze data collaboratively with notebooks

Azure Databricks: Standard Jobs Compute logo
Azure Databricks: Standard Jobs Compute

Automated workloads to run fast and robust jobs via API or UI

Azure Databricks: Standard Jobs Light Compute logo
Azure Databricks: Standard Jobs Light Compute

Standard Jobs Light Compute delivers $0.22/DBU-hour billing, minute-level runtime metering, and autoscaling clusters—perfect for data engineers.

Azure Event Hubs: Basic logo
Azure Event Hubs: Basic

Basic delivers 1-20 throughput units, $0.028 per million events, and up to 32 partitions—perfect for data engineers and dev teams.

Azure Event Hubs: Dedicated logo
Azure Event Hubs: Dedicated

Dedicated delivers 1-20 Capacity Units per cluster, 10 TB storage/CU included, and 90-day retention—perfect for cloud architects.

Azure Event Hubs: Premium logo
Azure Event Hubs: Premium

Premium delivers 1-16 PUs at $1.027/hour per PU, 1 TB storage per PU, and 90-day event retention—perfect for data engineers and DevOps.

Azure Event Hubs: Standard logo
Azure Event Hubs: Standard

Standard delivers 1 MB/s ingress per TU, up to 7-day retention, and $0.028 per million ingress events—perfect for data engineers.

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Azure HDInsight

Azure HDInsight delivers managed Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka clusters, pay-per-node hourly billing, and Microsoft R Server at $0.016/core-hour—perfect for data engineers.

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Azure HDInsight on Azure Kubernetes Service

Azure HDInsight on Azure Kubernetes Service delivers managed AKS infrastructure, Apache Spark/Flink/Trino workloads, and per-vcore-per-hour autoscaled compute—perfect for data engineers.

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Azure Machine Learning

Empower developers and data scientists with a wide range of productive experiences for building, training, and deploying machine learning models faster.

Azure Spot Virtual Machines logo
Azure Spot Virtual Machines

Azure Spot Virtual Machines delivers up to 90% off pay-as-you-go pricing, at least 30s eviction warning, and configurable per-VM max hourly price—perfect for batch processing and dev/test teams.

Azure Spring Apps: Basic logo
Azure Spring Apps: Basic

Basic delivers 2 vCPU/4GB app sizing, 50 vCPU-hrs and 100 GB-hrs monthly grants, and up to 25 app instances—perfect for individual developers.

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Azure Spring Apps: Enterprise

Enterprise delivers 8 vCPU/32 GB max app instances, 1,000 max app instances, and 99.95% SLA—perfect for Spring developers.

Azure Spring Apps: Standard logo
Azure Spring Apps: Standard

Standard delivers 6 included vCPUs, 12 GB RAM per instance, and a 99.9% SLA—perfect for Spring Boot production teams.

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Azure Spring Apps: Standard Consumption

The Standard consumption plan is hosted in Azure Container Apps environments and will interact with other apps running in the same environment with simplified networking and unified observability.

Azure Stream Analytics: Dedicated logo
Azure Stream Analytics: Dedicated

Dedicated delivers 12–66 SU V2 cluster scaling, 99.9% availability, and VNet/private endpoint connectivity—perfect for mission-critical streaming workloads.

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Azure Stream Analytics: Dedicated V2

Dedicated V2 delivers single-tenant dedicated clusters, 12–66 SU-V2 scaling, and VNet/Private Link private networking—perfect for data engineering teams.

Azure Stream Analytics: Standard logo
Azure Stream Analytics: Standard

Azure Stream Analytics: Standard V2 logo
Azure Stream Analytics: Standard V2

Standard V2 delivers subsecond latency, 99.9% SLA, and SU V2 pricing from $0.0065/hr—perfect for data engineers.

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Azure Synapse Analytics

Azure Synapse Analytics delivers serverless SQL pay-per-TB queries, dedicated SQL pools 100-30,000 DWU, and TB/month data storage billing—perfect for data teams.

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Microsoft Azure

Microsoft Azure is a cloud computing service offering a secure, future-ready solution that can be used on-premises, in a hybrid environment, or in a multi-cloud setting.

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Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Defender for Cloud delivers Azure, AWS, and GCP protection, $10/account/month for Defender for Storage, and per-VM monthly Defender for Servers plans—perfect for CISOs and cloud security teams.

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Microsoft Sentinel

Microsoft Sentinel delivers 500MB/VM/day Defender for Servers free ingestion—perfect for SOC teams.

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Vendr community insights for Microsoft

Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"We decided to renew our Microsoft subscription with a reseller because we were able to reduce our price by 5%. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Was able to leverage Trusted Tech, Crayon, US Wired for best discounted options for moving from monthly to annual. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesThis year
"Leveraged economies of scale and budget constraints to negotiate the renewal uplift down from 9% to 5%."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Microsoft pricing is based largely on volume. We leveraged reseller competition to ensure the lowest price."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to increase the Azure commitment discount from 3% to 5% by leveraging a 3 year deal."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Was able to leverage 2 resellers for best price option for a 12 month renewal versus going direct through Microsoft. Crayon was able to provide a $47,000 discount opportunity to earn more of the future business with their self service tool which is easy to manage."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"After receiving the renewal proposal, advised engineers to look into suggested proactive services listed for renewal. After review team was able to change current proactive services to align to upcoming projects and needs moving forward in which lowered total annual cost year over year on a 36 month renewal. Total savings over $25,000 "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Microsoft have had some large increases since our previous renewal, our reseller advised that they had not added any mark up to their offer helping keep our costs down as much as possible."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Microsoft had a large increase since our previous renewal. We managed to get a small discount by leveraging reseller pricing, our incumbent was able to provide the best offer. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"During our renewal, we made the strategic decision to opt for the Microsoft CSP model instead of committing to the EA 3-year agreement. The Microsoft CSP model operates exclusively on a month-to-month basis. We secured our purchase through a reseller, ensuring the confirmation of the most favorable pricing options."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure a 5% discount on a flat renewal after detailing budget constraints. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure $35K in savings, 13% discount after utilizing competition for the single year renewal. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"we were able to reduce our TCV purchasing our Microsoft apps for business licenses through a reseller"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure negotiated pricing from the original contract and no renewal lift by citing set budget and continued partnership. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to negotiate an 8% discount on a descoped renewal by remaining with a reseller and citing budget concerns. "
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to secure a flat rate by facilitating a mid-term upgrade as opposed to waiting for the renewal date which would be subject to increased pricing"
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"Purchased through reseller - Dell - and Dell was able to keep pricing completely flat. Dell stated there would be no uplift as long as Microsoft doesn't increase their pricing. If their pricing increases, that is the time they will increase the pricing on their side. Most contracts automatically renew with Dell. "
Company with more than 1000 employeesA while ago
"We renewed via our reseller SHI without any uplifts involved."
Company with more than 1000 employeesA while ago
"We were able to get better discounts going direct to Microsoft than via our existing reseller."
Company with 201-1000 employeesA while ago
"We found cheaper pricing shifting from paying monthly to an annual contract via CDW."
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