Cost calculation - Wait activity

Question

Curiosity question for which I assume I know the answer but seeking clarity

If I have a wait activity for 1 hour, assuming nothing else is happening during that 1 hour, is there any cost during that 1 hour (not counting the initiation of the wait)?

Answer 1

Hello @Ryan Abbey Thanks for the ask,

We have the same question answered here in GitHub. https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/azure-docs/issues/29820#issuecomment-504228540 as per the link,

For the wait activity, the cost is a flat 1$/1000 activity runs. A 10 minute wait would have the same cost as a 10 hour wait.

Please let us know if that helps. Thanks.

Answer 2

Hello @Ryan Abbey

Just adding some more insights on this question!

The Wait activity will be charged as per the Activity Count billing!

The Wait activity will not use any IR Resources and no DIU is consumed, so no billing on DIU!

For further clarification:

*Activity Runs are billed on 'count', Check the count of Total Activity Runs!!!
AND

*The Data Movement Activities are billed based on the DIU consumed by the IR(Integration Runtime)

Example: Below is the testing done to check the ADF pipeline consumption.

Test 1: Only 'Wait' activity for 1 hour, total 1 Activity , No Data Movement happened(No DIU consumed by the IR)

Test 2: Copy Activities + Wait Activities , The IR consumed few DIU, because we used CopyData activity!