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I was happy with Azure but just got a bill with “other” charges for $1k on what is a basic VM used solely as a db replica.

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For what it’s worth there is a tabular view that has more item detail. Things like marketplace subscriptions can often appear as Other in the graph.

I’m pretty happy with azure. I’ve not used GCP but vs AWS I find permission management a lot nicer. I have yet to have a billing surprise that didn’t come down to me not reading closely enough.

What I don’t like is they sometimes lock private links (aka the ability to not have a service publically routable, only accessible on a vnet) behind premium SKUs, looking at you service bus.

Interzone bandwidth maybe? They used to not charge for that, but they started doing so recently

Do you have any links to more info about this? I don't use Azure, so I'm not sure where I would look for something like this.

I've been aware of some enterprise projects that are running on Azure, where from the description of how their architecture worked, I couldn't understand how they weren't drowning in network cost. It makes a bit more sense now if I know that Azure weren't charging people for some types of network bandwidth.

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