Windows 365 Network recommendation & Potential Cost.

Question

Hi All,

Good day !!

working on a very big opportunity, where in partner is planning to provision ~1200 windows 365 PC’s. During the leap we want to understand below information to be specific to

First - potential cost to the customer including below mentioned scenarios :

• While accessing the data from One drive from cloud PC how the charges will be calculated
• Traffic going out to the internet how this will be charged
• How windows 365 cloud PC access the Azure resources if it is placed in same region.

Second - Best suggested networking best recommendations.

Any insight on above queries would be great help

Answer 1

There is no cost for data transfer from other Microsoft cloud services, i.e. no egress charges between OneDrive and the Cloud PC.

Cost of egress traffic to the Internet is included for the Business SKU for Windows 365 (fair usage applies) - see here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-365/faq#coreui-collapsibledrawer-w56p8sc

For the Enterprise SKU it would be charged per GB instead, see here for pricing: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/

Accessing other Azure network resources is only possible with the Enterprise SKU. As long as the resources are in or are connected to the same VNET as the Cloud PCs then they can be accessed even if they are not deployed in the same region.

I'm not sure how to answer your second question, it's a bit too general. The Windows 365 service is accessed over the Internet.