Microsoft Azure allows you to quickly deploy infrastructures and services to meet all of your business needs. You can run Windows and Linux based applications in 36 Azure datacenter regions, delivered with enterprise grade SLAs.

Microsoft Azure offer you to Quickly compare the total cost of ownership (TCO) of your on-premises infrastructure with a comparable Azure deployment using the  TCO Calculator and estimate savings you can realize by moving to Azure.

In this article i will show you  a little example on how to calculate the TCO on a small architecture.

To access to the TCO calculator, click on this link : TCO Calculator,  click on the TCO calculator image in red rectangle and follow instructions

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My use case:

This example is based on a small architecture with two Virtual Machines, just to give you an insight into the use of this TCO calculator.

The first step is to enter input parameters

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after clicking on the Calculate button, the result appears:

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Details are available by clicking on export to Word on the top frame result.

Conclusion:

To be honest, this calculator may not accurately predict the TCO but it offers a good estimate on the kind of savings one can expect. It is a very good tool for companies looking to move their IT infrastructure to Azure cloud.

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