New to Azure - Question on Pricing

Question

I am new to Azure, so please excuse if something I am obviously missing.
I am looking at Azure for mainly cloud hosting. I am also comparing it with Amazon AWS and Google Cloud offering. I see the prices for Azure are quite higher (VMs).
1) Does the pricing include anything bundled ?
2) Am I also getting charged for Windows ?

Answer 1

There's nothing bundled in VM pricing - at least not spelled out as such. Pricing can vary depending on VM Size which takes into consideration RAM/CPU/Number of Disks (1TB max each, which also adds IOPS). Although you can consider things like WAN IPs as
bundled in. Some pre-configured VMs like SQL can be thought of as the software license bundled in.
You're not charged for Windows. So, I suppose you can consider Windows license pricing as bundled in..
for more details see:
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/calculator/?scenario=virtual-machines
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn197896.aspx
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/
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