Microsoft cloud pricing calculators – A demo

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.