Azure Pricing for simple authentication

[garethEds]

Morning All,

 

Does anyone use AzureAD as a simple tool for authenticating against a web app? We want to use RoomBookingSystems.co.uk and can use school staff accounts and set it to authenticate against our Azure. However I'm worried about the pricing. I can start with a freee £125 credit but what are the monthly costs for something so simple?

 

Cheers

 

Gareth

[Matt_Renato]

If you know exactly what features you will need you can use the Azure Calculator to get a rough idea of the pricing.

 

The alternative is to sign up for a trial and monitor the free credit you burn through in a month, this might give you a more accurate indication of the approximate monthly cost.

[m25man]

Got this at 00:00 on 01/12:ohwell:

 

Microsoft periodically assesses pricing of products and services across the globe to ensure there is reasonable alignment across the regions. This change to Azure prices is an outcome of this assessment. Microsoft previously announced British pound price changes to harmonize pricing for enterprise software and cloud services within the EU/EFTA region, effective January 1, 2017. This email is to confirm those previously announced changes to Azure pricing in British pound.

 

Starting January 1, 2017, British pound prices for Azure will increase by 22 percent to more closely align to euro pricing. Even after this adjustment, Azure customers across the region buying in British pound will find Azure offerings highly competitive.

 

Similar Azure price adjustments are being communicated to Azure customers in other markets. Azure prices in Indian rupee, Argentine peso, and Mexican peso will increase, and Azure prices in South African rand and Indonesian rupiah will decrease to realign to global levels.

 

The following explains how this change impacts existing Azure customers in volume licensing.

 

Enterprise Agreements (EA) or Enterprise Subscription Agreements (EAS), Microsoft Products and Services Agreement (MPSA), or Server and Cloud Enrollments (SCE)

Customers or partners who purchased Azure within an EA, EAS, MPSA, or SCE agreement have price protection on currently offered Azure services and will receive the lower of their baseline price or the new market price. A customer’s or partner’s baseline price is the price at the beginning of their Azure agreement or the price a new Azure service was made generally available. If the new market price is higher than the customer’s baseline prices, they may see an increase up to but not above their baseline prices. New Azure services will be priced at the then-current pricelist price.

 

Pay-As-You-Go subscriptions on the Azure website

Customers under the Pay-As-You-Go model enjoy the benefits of no minimum purchase requirements and have flexible pricing. For these customers, prices will increase effective January 1, 2017. Customers purchasing Azure in British pounds will see pricing at levels similar to Azure pricing in euros on the Microsoft Azure website.

 

Azure in Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) program

In CSP, end customer pricing for Azure services is determined by the channel partner. Microsoft pricing to the CSP partner is under the Pay-As-You-Go model with the benefits of no minimum purchase requirements and flexible pricing. For CSP partners, British pound prices will increase effective January 1, 2017, to levels commensurate to Azure prices in euros.

 

Azure purchased via Open

Consumption rates will increase effective January 1, 2017, to the new pricing in British pounds, which will be at levels similar to Azure pricing in euros on the Azure website.

 

Prepaid subscriptions on the Azure website (retired for new customer sign-ups as of October 1, 2016)

For previously offered subscriptions, the prepaid amount, discount, and terms remain unchanged. Consumption rates will increase effective January 1, 2017, to the new pricing in British pounds.

 

If you have questions, please contact us.

 

Note: As an Azure customer, you are receiving this email because we are required to notify you of all pricing changes. This is the only communication that you will receive directly from Microsoft regarding these pricing changes.

 

Thank you,

 

Your Azure Team