Azure Bandwidth/Data Transfer Limit?

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Azure Bandwidth/Data Transfer Limit?

kaspertheghost 21

I have a virtual machine on Azure and I was wondering if there is a bandwidth limit for it. By bandwidth limit I mean, a limit like 15GB of outbound and inbound data transfer. I tried checking some forums about this but could not find a clear answer.

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Leon Laude 86,091

Hi,

As far as I know there's no data limitation on the amount of inbound/outbound data from an Azure virtual machine.

There are limitations regarding the flow though:

Virtual machine network bandwidth
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-network/virtual-machine-network-throughput

Do note that outbound data transfers cost, while inbound are for free:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/

(Please don't forget to accept helpful replies as answer)

Best regards,
Leon

SamsonJohn 1 Reputation point

2020-10-28T07:39:14.873+00:00

BY any chance , we can Find out from the Azure VM what is the network bandwidth and
speed as shown in the attached image

Answer 2

AlyaKoni 11

Each VM type has its own network limitation. See the VM documentation:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/sizes

In this documentation you will find for each VM type:

Max NICs
Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)

Scroll right if you don't see the values ;-)

Aarushi Sharma 0

How are they finding these values in the expected network bandwidth section

Size	vCore	Memory: GiB	Temp storage (SSD) GiB	Max temp storage throughput: IOPS/Read MBps/Write MBps	Max data disks/throughput: IOPS	Max NICs	Expected network bandwidth (Mbps)
Standard_A1_v2	1	2	10	1000/20/10	2/2x500	2	250
Standard_A1_v2	1	2	10	1000/20/10	2/2x500	2	250
Standard_A2_v2	2	4	20	2000/40/20	4/4x500	2	500
Standard_A4_v2	4	8	40	4000/80/40	8/8x500	4	1000
Standard_A8_v2	8	16	80	8000/160/80	16/16x500	8	2000
Standard_A2m_v2	2	16	20	2000/40/20	4/4x500	2	500
Standard_A4m_v2	4	32	40	4000/80/40	8/8x500	4	1000
Standard_A8m_v2	8	64	80	8000/160/80	16/16x500	8	2000

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kaspertheghost 21

It shows a free 5GB Limit. Does this apply to web traffic and other web-related things on my Virtual Machine?

Leon Laude 86,091 Reputation points

2020-06-06T15:28:41.13+00:00

Any traffic that goes out from the virtual machine.
kaspertheghost 21 Reputation points

2020-06-06T15:39:04.183+00:00

If I have a web app similar to google meet where there is video and voice calling, will the 5GB limit affect me?
Leon Laude 86,091 Reputation points

2020-06-06T15:40:23.753+00:00

Depends how many voice and video calls you're going to have, most likely this limit will be reached in quite a short time.
kaspertheghost 21 Reputation points

2020-06-06T15:44:19.667+00:00

Is there any way to avoid this 5GB Limit? And does this apply to East US VM's?
Leon Laude 86,091 Reputation points

2020-06-06T15:46:47.553+00:00

There's no limit on the outbound data transfer, the first 5GB of outbound data transfer is free, everything over that will start costing.
The first 5GB/month applies to all Azure regions, but if the outbound data transfer goes above 5GB it will cost, and the prices vary depending on the region.
kaspertheghost 21 Reputation points

2020-06-06T15:50:22.63+00:00

Is there a way to have unlimited free data transfer outbound?
Leon Laude 86,091 Reputation points

2020-06-06T15:51:18.763+00:00

Unfortunately not.
kaspertheghost 21 Reputation points

2020-06-06T15:56:11.397+00:00

Ok, Thank you for the help :)
AlyaKoni 11 Reputation points

2021-01-18T22:48:05.02+00:00

The given values in this table do not show a limit. Just a charging break. So after 5GB you get charged!

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