Azure Retail Pricing API - Reservations with and without Azure Hybrid Use Benefit

Question

Hi there,

We are trying to utilise the Retail API to pull some pricing for virtual machines.

I can get the following;

PAYG,
PAYG with AHUB
1 Year Reserved Instance with AHUB
3 Year Reserved Instance with AHUB

I cannot however retrieve Reserved Instance pricing (both 1 year and 3 year) without AHUB. The pricing calculator allows for this selection, but it appears the Retail Prices API does not.

Example;

https://prices.azure.com/api/retail/prices?currencyCode=GBP&$filter=armSkuName eq 'Standard_D1_v2' and armRegionName eq 'uksouth' and serviceFamily eq 'Compute' and serviceName eq 'Virtual Machines'

This only brings 2 Reservation Type prices back (along with other Consumption ones) - both 1 Year and 3 Year with AHUB. It does not bring back the Reservation prices without - which I would have expected to have a "Windows" appended to the productName

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I therefore do not know how I can calculate the Windows license cost for Reservation type prices. I attempted to do a calculation on the difference between a PAYG and PAYG AHUB to establish the Windows license cost, but it appears the Windows license cost changes on the Azure Pricing Calculator when you select Reserved Instances.

Help!

Answer 1

Azure Reservations do not include any licensing so you will not see the licensing as part of this product. There should be a separate "Windows Server" product which is the license only cost and it will have a per vCPU price attached, e.g. "Windows Server - 1vCPU VM" but this price will vary somewhat depending on the VM type, for example Bs series VMs have a much lower per vCPU Windows Server license cost.

Basically, you would need to price these two products separately.