Azure for Less Than One Dollar a Day
summary
Claim: a full Azure stack can run for about a dollar a day by swapping big VMs for reserved VMs and many burstable B1 instances, using blob storage for files, table storage for cheap KV, a CDN to cut egress, Functions for glue (400k GB‑s and 1M calls free), and Service Bus/queue plus low‑priority VMs for batch workers. Example numbers: eight B1s ≈ $0.96/day, 1 TB blob ≈ $0.60/day, Cosmos minimum RU ≈ $0.80/day; assembled architecture operates and meets the cost target if you redesign for cloud.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction and cost mindset
- 3:10VM pricing in Azure
- 5:45Reserved VM discounts
- 7:56Cloud failure and redundancy
- 9:20Burstable VMs for cost savings
- 12:13Managed SQL Server options
- 15:05Azure SQL Database pricing
- 18:29Cosmos DB pricing challenges
- 23:09Pay-as-you-go with Table Storage
- 25:04Outgoing traffic costs and CDN
- 29:00Storage options in Azure
- 32:53Compute engine alternatives
- 37:10App Services and scaling
- 38:58Azure Functions pricing
- 43:44Batch VMs for background tasks
- 46:15Service Bus and queue costs
- 48:25Queue Storage as cheaper alternative
- 50:14Summary and final tips
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