SQL Managed Instance cost per instance or per database?

Oers, Pim van 46 Reputation points
2022-03-16T14:21:53.073+00:00

In the pricing calculator when adding the SQL Managed Instance, you pay an amount for that instance.
As I understand it this is for the reserved compute and storage.
So if you create a SQL Managed Instance and you create for example 10 SQL databases on that instance.
Do you only pay for the SQL Managed Instance reserved compute and storage or do you also incur extra costs for each SQL database you create on that instance?

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Alan Kinane 16,951 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-03-16T16:21:15.363+00:00

    You are correct, it is priced based on compute resources and storage so you can have anything up to a maximum of 100 databases per instance. There is no cost per database.

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  1. Alberto Morillo 34,671 Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2022-03-16T16:24:20.103+00:00

    You pay for the reserved compute and storage. Adding databases don't add additional costs.

    Apart from this, the purchasing model is also eligible to provide the user with up to 55 percent savings through the Azure Hybrid Benefit package.

    The price range of the service is available in the form of certain service pricing tiers. The service tier can be further categorized into the following: General Purpose Service Tier and Business Critical Service Tier.

    Within the General Purpose Tier, the user company is charged for a premium account of Azure Blob Storage according to the chosen Instance. The storage can be configured from 32GB to 8TB with 32GB increments. First 32 GB included in the price, and additional storage $0.12/GB/month.

    Backup storage. Locally redundant $0.10/GB/month, Zone-redundant 0.13, Geo-redundant 0.20. Long-Term retention backups have different pricing.

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