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Questions regarding bandwidth pricing on Azure VMs

dk1301 96 Reputation points
2021-12-01T11:17:30.013+00:00

Hi all,

My development team has created an app that measures uplink/downlink speed using dedicated measurement servers.

For the time being these measurement servers are two VMs on Azure with the one residing at West Europe and the other at US.

The measurement is done by uploading and downloading binary files to and from web server located on the above VMs.

So my questions are the following :

1) Does the above traffic puts additional cost to the existing ones and if so where can I find more info ?

2) If 1 is yes is the cost different for uplink and downlink ?

3) Since we are planning to test via iperf3 TCP and UDP uplink/downlink, and if 1 is yes does it make any difference to the cost if protocol is TCP or UDP ?

Thanks in advance

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  1. Devaraj G 2,096 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2021-12-01T13:23:26.877+00:00

    Hi DK,

    The pricing is calculated based on egress and ingress traffic. Its not about the port/protocal you leverage.
    Please refer the below link for detailed pricing info for azure traffic:

    https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/bandwidth/#pricing

    You should be able to see the costing details under Azure portal:
    Reference for steps to find the utilisation : https://medium.com/microsoftazure/azure-platform-egress-charges-e1755129b5dc

    1 person found this answer helpful.

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