Azure costing - Massive increase

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Anyone else experiencing a massive Azure cost increase?

When SA North was introduced I moved everything across to the data centres here.
March : R30 000 cost
April : R39 000 cost
May prediction : R65 000 cost

I havent done anything. Further research shows its my 3 * 4TB drives that keeps rising.

When I go to the logs it shows me creating the disks 2 months ago. So I moved the disks from Premium SSD to Standard SSD. Now the cost says R70 000. How by going cheaper caused this?

I am willing to accept the blame but I cant seem to find what I`m doing wrong
 
ArtyLoop said:
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Thanks Arty, but I`m losing sleep over this and I cant find answers.

Not only am I trying to find why but I`m trying to see where I ****ed up so I can undo my changes before massive costs are incurred.

The only answer I can see is delete the disks(Which I cant)
 
Hellhound105 said:
Thanks Arty, but I`m losing sleep over this and I cant find answers.

Not only am I trying to find why but I`m trying to see where I ****ed up so I can undo my changes before massive costs are incurred.

The only answer I can see is delete the disks(Which I cant)
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Are you dealing with them direct or through a VAR?
Either way - contact your account manager to get clarity.

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What Rickster said :-)
 
Did you not maybe choose a different redundancy level? Or did you maybe start actually using more of the disk space?
 
This just confirms to me that the cost vs performance ratio of bare metal is still worth the hassle of hosting your own servers in a good DC and implementing your own redundancy, etc.
 
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garp said:
This just confirms to me that the cost vs performance ratio of bare metal is still worth the hassle of hosting your own servers in a good DC and implementing your own redundancy, etc.
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Not in my experience. The elastic nature of cloud (when properly implemented) usually does result in non trivial savings. You can't make the assumption you are making based on a poor implementation that even the owner recognises as sub optimal.
 
SlinkyMike said:
Not in my experience. The elastic nature of cloud (when properly implemented) usually does result in non trivial savings. You can't make the assumption you are making based on a poor implementation that even the owner recognises as sub optimal.
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Where? Where is the sub optimal agreement?

Where is the poor implementation?

For the record the other guys gave better things to check than this statement
 
Could some increase not be attributed to VAT? I received an email about that for PAYG accounts, but I think that was from 1 April?
Also would migrating between different storage options not incur a once off read and write cost?
 
evilskaap said:
Could some increase not be attributed to VAT? I received an email about that for PAYG accounts, but I think that was from 1 April?
Also would migrating between different storage options not incur a once off read and write cost?
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Thats just it. the changes were done 2 months ago and the bandwidth/read and write costs were paid.

However get this - SA North and ZA North. On the 28th of April I see the problematic charges started showing as ZA North. I can only see this when you export usage on the COST tab.
Best thing is the resources never changed region or location.

When the disks were on SA North everything was fine. I`m doing what @OCP said and contacting the account manager.
 
Hellhound105 said:
Same disk space used as last month 99%. Also SSD so even if you dont use you pay
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The reason I ask is because:
You can store snapshots and images for Standard SSD Managed Disks on Standard HDD storage. You can choose between locally redundant (LRS) and Zone redundant (ZRS) options. These snapshots and images are charged at R 0.76/GB per month for both Standard LRS and ZRS options based on the used portion of the disk. For example, if you create a snapshot of a managed disk with provisioned capacity of 128 GB and actual used data size of 10 GB, snapshot will be billed only for the used data size of 10 GB. If you choose to store them on SSD storage, you’ll be charged at R 2.660000/GB per month.
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So the actual disk you pay for regardless, but the redundancy is on a usage basis.
Also, are you sure you maintained the same redundancy setting when you migrated the disks to standard?
 
me_ said:
The reason I ask is because:

So the actual disk you pay for regardless, but the redundancy is on a usage basis.
Also, are you sure you maintained the same redundancy setting when you migrated the disks to standard?
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Will check, thank you.
 
me_ said:
The reason I ask is because:

So the actual disk you pay for regardless, but the redundancy is on a usage basis.
Also, are you sure you maintained the same redundancy setting when you migrated the disks to standard?
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Jip same. But note I only migrated from premium to standard because I saw the costs going like mad
 
isnt M$ busy setting up local servers , where previously they didnt have any?
maybe they factoring in the costs into existing clients?

or maybe we paying in ZAR, and they costing it in US$,
and with all thats happened in the past, maybe the prices going up like anything imported.

could be dozens of things, TBH, my guess its a combination of many of those factors.
 
eg2505 said:
isnt M$ busy setting up local servers , where previously they didnt have any?
maybe they factoring in the costs into existing clients?

or maybe we paying in ZAR, and they costing it in US$,
and with all thats happened in the past, maybe the prices going up like anything imported.

could be dozens of things, TBH, my guess its a combination of many of those factors.
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I even started thinking the same, but trying to get proof is much harder than it sounds. Even from Microsoft. Hence why Iogged and still await a better answer.

The first thing I always do is ok, whats the difference between this month and last month. Once I go through what I have done and realize basically I have done nothing I start to freak.
My biggest problem now is that SA North region and ZAR region.

It just changed from SA North to ZAR North by itself, but can explain the US vs ZAR costing like you and others said. Can confirm all disks are SA North still.

I am however starting to feel better after getting that conclusion so far, but the bill still needs to be paid and I need to ensure its correct

EDIT : Not ZAR but ZA North
 
I used them for a while, but found it was far too expensive for what I needed. Data and Storage costs were nailing me.
 
SlinkyMike said:
Not in my experience. The elastic nature of cloud (when properly implemented) usually does result in non trivial savings. You can't make the assumption you are making based on a poor implementation that even the owner recognises as sub optimal.
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So you consider R70k per month for 12TB of hosted standard SSD storage reasonable? Interesting.
 
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