Azure VM free tier limit

Question

Hi ,
I am new to azure. Checking azure free tier limits.
Is azure VM Linux limit 750 hours is per month or over 12 months ?

Answer 1

Hi @praveen D & @Anonymous ,

You get 750 hours free usage of a B1S VM SKU per month.
Please take a look on this screenshot (Source: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services/)

Virtual Machines = plural ... Which means 1 or more VMs. Per month you get 750 hours for B1s:
1x B1S running 24/7 (744 hours in a month with 31 days) - 6 hours"unused"
or
2x B1S running 375 hours per month = 750 hours per month in total.
and so on

Source: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/cost-management-billing/manage/create-free-services#create-multiple-service-instances-in-allowed-limits

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Regards
Andreas Baumgarten

Answer 2

Hi Praveen,

as per:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-services/
and paying particular attention to the following sentences:
"Popular services are free for your first 12 months"
and:
"Azure services that are free for 12 months"

you can use 750 hours B1 burstable virtual machine over the 12 months!

Cheers,
Domenico