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  • April 19, 2018 at 3:53 am

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    henrik staun poulsen - Thursday, April 19, 2018 3:31 AM

    Thank you very much for this article.
    Would it be possible for you to post a general ball-park estimate of the costs ?

    Just something like  x$ per database per GB per month

    TIA
    Henrik

    Hi  

    For the virtual machine testing the backups in the UK with SQL Standard and a Premium 128GB managed OS disk running an L4 VM (4Core, 32GB Ram, 678GB SSD Temp storage) running on average 104 minutes per day it comes out at around £60 per month.

    For our backup storage this depends.  Based on a 5GB database backup and keeping 31 daily backups, 104 weekly backups and 96 monthly backups we would be looking at £18 per month.  This is stored using the Hot Tier.  When the archive tier comes to UK storage accounts we are estimating around a 60% reduction in costs as we will make use of the Cool and Archive Tiers.