Microsoft cloud pricing calculators – A demo
Videos|by Kieran Hollingsworth|22 May 2025
Predicting your Azure costs will help you to plan your cloud adoption and identify the areas in which you can make real cost savings.
Microsoft’s pricing calculators
Microsoft offers two calculators that will help you to do just that: the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator, and the Azure Pricing Calculator. Each of these calculators give you key insights into your deployment, helping you to take control of your cloud spend.
In this demo, one of our Azure Solution Specialists, Sam, talks you through how you can use each of these calculators to better understand your cloud spend and how you could make cost savings by migrating to Azure.
These calculators make it easy to work out your current spend, and the savings you could make by adopting the cloud. Sam takes you through the process of calculating your cloud costs, step by step.
Jump ahead to the key moments in this video with the below timestamps:
0:26 – Total Cost of Ownership Calculator walkthrough – Sam walks through the various fields of the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator, explaining what information you’ll need.
4:19 – Adjusting assumptions – A walkthrough of the considerations you’ll have to fill out within the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator to give you a set figure, including geo-redundant storage (GRS), Virtual Machine costs, storage, electricity, and even IT labour costs.
8:50 – Other assumptions – Even more assumptions you may not have considered. Sam talks you through everything from hardware through to virtualisation and data warehouse costs.
9:26 – The Total Cost of Ownership report – See what output you can expect from your use of the Total Cost of Ownership Calculator.
10:01 – Azure Pricing Calculator – A look at Microsoft’s second free resource, helping you to estimate the costs of your cloud migration.
11:41 – Virtual Machines – Sam demo’s how you’d work out the potential cost of your VMs.
15:23 – Cost estimate – Sam fills in the final details of our test case and shows our total cost estimate.
17:43 – Estimate report – An overview of the Azure Pricing Calculator’s exported estimate report.
18:58 – Total Cost of Ownership + Azure Pricing Calculator – an explanation of how these two calculators combine to help you plan out your migration.
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