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Go to billing > cost analysis > filter by resource break down. Azure billing analysis is pretty amazing.

Yeah, but it just shows my database cost which is higher than is listed as far as I can tell.

Could it be listed "hourly" and you're charged "daily"? Add in VAT (equal to 25% in some countries) and you match the 30 times higher than expected charge.

https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/sql-databa...

Basic tier, 5 DTUs, 2 GB is listed as ~$4.8971/month or $0.0068/hour on this page. Extra storage would cost more but is not available for the basic tier.

Do you have geo-replication turned on? More regions will be an additional $5/month (plus bandwidth between regions) if you replicate. You can serve everything out of a single region but it is pretty easy to add others if you're not paying attention during initial setup.

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