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Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Calculator

Estimate the cost savings you can realize by migrating your workloads to Azure

My saved reports

Over 5 year(s) with Microsoft Azure, your estimated cost savings

could be as much as

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Total on-premises over 5 year(s)

TCO of on-premises environments tends to be Total Azure cost over 5 year(s)
driven by compute and data center costs. In Azure, certain cost categories decrease or go
away completely.

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Total on-premises cost breakdown

In Azure, several of the cost categories from the Total Azure cost breakdown
on-premises environment are consolidated and In Azure, several of the cost categories from the
decrease with the efficiency that comes with the on-premises environment are consolidated and
cloud. decrease with the efficiency that comes with the
cloud.

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$107,560
Cost over 5 year(s) $13,967
Cost over 5 year(s)

On-premises cost breakdown

summary Azure cost breakdown summary

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Category Cost Category Cost

Compute $85,279.10 Compute $7,280.04

Hardware $4,692.00
Software $15,387.50 Data Center $0.00
Electricity $1,227.60 Networking $614.40
Database $63,972.00
Storage $4,155.61
Data Center $4,534.05
IT Labor $1,917.05
Networking $12,679.71
Storage $467.20
IT Labor $4,600.00

Total $107,560.00
Total $13,967.00

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Estimated on-premises cost (5

year(s)) Estimated Azure cost (5 year(s))

Compute cost

Azure compute cost

Hardware cost

Cost per 1 proc 1 core, 0.75 GB

RAM physical server for $1,173.00 Virtual Machines cost
Windows
Number of servers required 1 Number of hours per month 730
Cost per 1 proc 1 core, 0.75 GB B1S Standard (1 core, 1 GB
RAM physical server for $1,173.00 RAM) Windows (Azure Hybrid SKU#
Windows Benefit) AAA-68673
Number of servers required 1 Number of virtual machines 1
Total cost for physical server(s) $2,346.00 Total virtual machine cost per
month $3.534
Cost of maintaining physical
server(s) - 20% of cost of $469.20
physical server(s) Total Azure Virtual Machines $212.04
cost
Total cost of maintaining $2,346.00
server(s) over five year(s)
NOTE: For Azure compute costs, 3 year
Reserved VM and two 1 year Reserved VM in
Total hardware cost over five use.
year(s) $4,692.00
SQL Database cost
Software cost General Purpose Single Gen5 2 $0.13698 /hr
vCores (Azure Hybrid Benefit)
SKU#
AAD-17850
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Cost of Windows datacenter Instance Count 1

license per 1 proc, 1 core, 0.75 $6,155.00 Cost Per Month $117.80
GB RAM physical machine
Number of licenses needed 1
Cost of Windows datacenter Total SQL Database cost over
five year(s) $7,068.00
license per 1 proc, 1 core, 0.75 $6,155.00
GB RAM physical machine
Number of licenses needed 1
Total software license cost $12,310.00
Total Software Assurance cost $3,077.50

Total software cost over five $15,387.50

year(s)

Electricity cost

Price of electricity per kWh $0.1334

Power rating of 1 core, 0.75 GB 105 Watts
RAM server
Total electricity cost
consumed by 1 server(s) - 1 $10.23
core, 0.75 GB RAM server per
month
Power rating of 1 core, 0.75 GB 105 Watts
RAM server
Total electricity cost
consumed by 1 server(s) - 1 $10.23
core, 0.75 GB RAM server per
month

Total electricity cost over five

year(s) $1,227.60

SQL Database cost

Total CPU cores 4

SQL Server Enterprise License
cost per 2 cores $14,256.00
Enterprise cores 4
Total license cost $28,512.00
Enterprise Software Assurance
cost per 2 cores $3,546.00
Enterprise cores 4
Total Software Assurance cost $35,460.00

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Total SQL Database cost over $63,972.00

five year(s)

NOTE: A minimum of four core licenses are

required for each physical processor on the
server or VM

Total cost over five year(s) $85,279.10

Total Azure compute cost over $7,280.04
five year(s)

Data center cost

Azure data center cost

Compute cost

Number of rack units per rack 42 Total Azure data center cost
over five year(s) $0.00
Rack units required per 1 core, 1
0.75 GB RAM server
Number of 1 core, 0.75 GB 1
RAM server
Total number of rack units
required 1

Rack units required per 1 core,

0.75 GB RAM server 1
Number of 1 core, 0.75 GB 1
RAM server
Total number of rack units 1
required
Total number of rack units 2
required for all server(s)
Data center construction cost
per rack unit amortized over 20 $302.27
years
Data center compute cost $604.54

Total Data center compute $3,022.70

cost over five year(s)

Storage cost

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Total number of rack units

required for all storage 1
Number of rack units for DAS 1
or SAN
Rack mounting/installation
cost $302.27

Total Data center storage cost $1,511.35

over five year(s)

Total Data center cost over five

year(s) $4,534.05
Total Azure data center cost $0.00
over five year(s)

Networking cost
Azure networking cost

Total hardware + software cost

over five year(s) $20,079.50

Network hardware and

software cost assumed to be Total outgoing bandwidth 1 TB
15% of hardware and software $3,011.92 needed per month
cost over five year(s) Total outgoing bandwidth cost
per month $10.24
Network maintenance cost
assumed to be 15% of network
hardware and software cost $451.79
over five year(s)
Service provider cost/GB per
month $0.15
Amount of bandwidth 1,024
needed (GB) per month
Total service provider cost per $153.60
month

Total networking cost over five $12,679.71

year(s)
Total Azure networking cost $614.40
over five year(s)

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Storage cost
Azure storage cost

Hardware

Local Disk/SAN-HDD Page Blob storage

Cost per GB $0.20
Storage (RAID 10 1,024
configuration) volume in GB Usable storage volume in GB 512
Storage cost per GB/month $0.045

Total storage procurement Annual storage cost per usable $276.48

cost $204.80 volume

Total Page Blob LRS storage

Backup maintenance cost over five $1,382.40
year(s)
Total backup and archive 2,048
volume in GB
HP LTO-7 Backup
BB873A
Backup volume per tape in 6
TB Total backup and archive 2,048
Number of Tape drives volume in GB
required 1
Storage cost per GB $0.0224
Cost per Tape Drive $160.00
SKU#
AAA-70203
Backup and Archive cost over $160.00
five year(s)
Backup and Archive
maintenance cost over five $2,752.51
Storage Maintenance year(s)

Storage maintenance cost SQL Database Server

(10% of storage procurement $102.40 storage
cost) over five year(s)

Usable storage volume in GB 3

Total storage maintenance Price per GB/Month $0.038
$102.40
cost over five year(s) Active DB Storage Cost/Month $0.115
Annual storage cost per usable $4.14
volume

Total SQL Database Server $20.70

Storage cost over five year(s)

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SQL Database Backup

storage

Billable backup storage volume 0

in GB
Price per GB/Month $0.00
Backup Storage Cost/Month $0.20
Annual storage cost per usable
$0.00
volume

Total SQL Database Backup $0.00

Storage Cost over five year(s)

Total storage cost over five $467.20

year(s)
Total Azure storage cost over $4,155.61
five year(s)

IT labor cost
Azure IT labor cost

Number of IT admin hour(s)

needed per year 40
Hourly rate for IT $23.00
administrator Number of IT admin hour(s) 16.67
needed per year
Hourly rate for IT $23.00
administrator

Total IT labor cost over five

year(s) $4,600.00
Total Azure IT labor cost over $1,917.05
five year(s)

Total on-premises cost over five

year(s) $107,560.00 Total Azure cost over five year(s) $13,967.00

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A total savings of $93,593.00 with Microsoft Azure

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