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Don Box
Don Box

Reputation: 3336

Understand Azure Websites Pay-As-You-Go

I have a Pay-As-You-Go subscription on Azure and I created an "app" with intention to have a small blog. I didn't add or setup any other services or anything else.

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It says "App Service Plan: Default1 (Free: 0 Small)"

What does it mean?

I'd like to understand how it works, how am I being charged? Shouldn't be free considering I didn't add any service? How do I know I am on the free tier?

Sorry if it sounds stupid

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1871

Answers (1)

Jamie
Jamie

Reputation: 3372

In Azure when you create a Web App, you need to have a server to host it on. To achieve that Azure creates a think called an App Service Plan (Think hosting server). The App Service Plan is what your billing is based on. Depending on the App Service Plan selected, you can host multiple sites on a single app service plan like you would on an on-premise server.

Azure App Service Plans come in the following tiers:

  • F - Free - No cost but limited compute time (60 minutes a day)
  • D - Shared - $9.67
  • Basic - Starts at $55.80
  • Standard - Starts at $74.40
  • Premium

So from the looks of it, it says you are using a Free plan. To verify, go to the Azure Portal, navigate to your App Service. Then under that section got to App Service plan.

Which should give you the answer that you posted. So indeed you are using the Free tier of Azure. With that in mind, you app will only run 60 minutes a day, after that compute time has been used, your site will be shutdown. In addition realize that your site will "sleep" in between visitors causing the initial load to be affected.

Hope this helps.

More about costing can be found here.

Upvotes: 1

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