will azure incur bandwidth cost for downloading files in vm

Srikrishna R 6

could someone please guide me whether I will be charged of bandwidth cost for downloading huge files in azure vm

prmanhas-MSFT 17,886 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-07-29T06:41:07.52+00:00

@Srikrishna R Thank you for your query. I might need some additional information from your end which will enable me to help you out better.

Can you help me understand what exactly is your use case scenario like when you say you need to download huge files how are you planning to do that? When you say that you want to understand the bandwidth cost what exactly is it pointing to?

Once I do have a clear idea about your ask I can help you out better.

Thanks
prmanhas-MSFT 17,886 Reputation points Microsoft Employee

2020-08-07T09:02:29.86+00:00

@Srikrishna R Any update on the issue?

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Rajesh Swarnkar 851 Reputation points

2021-10-27T06:17:49.867+00:00

Hi @prmanhas-MSFT

Just a quick query: Will I incur changes for downloading files from internet, e.g. say Installing MS SQL Express on VM requires about 6GB of downloads. Will this incur charges?

BR,
Rajesh

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Vinicius Deschamps 196 Reputation points

2020-08-27T14:29:38.41+00:00

Hi SrikrishnaR-4608,

Yes, you are going to be charged because you are downloading files which implies in outbound traffic been generated

At this doucment it clarifies better what to expect https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/

Thanks,
Vinicius Deschamps
https://viniciusdeschamps.com.br
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Rajesh Swarnkar 851 Reputation points

2023-03-07T09:07:04.7266667+00:00

It says outbound data transfer. Not Inbound.
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