Migrating Applications to the Cloud with Azure
by Sjoukje Zaal, Amit Malik, Sander Rossel, Jason Marston, Mohamed Waly, Stefano Demiliani
Dynamic pricing
In Azure, you only pay for resources you're using, and since servers are allocated dynamically, you're not paying for functions that you're not using. Even when your functions are executing, it's quite cheap. With an App Service plan, you allocate a server that is always up and running; depending on your tier (let's say, basic, normal, and enterprise) you're paying about €40 – €1,000 a month, even when your application does absolutely nothing. Your functions can run on an App Service plan (which is great when you already have one), but it's recommended to create a consumption plan.
With a consumption plan, you pay per use. The actual costs are a bit difficult to calculate since it's a mix of per-second resource consumption ...
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