Azure - Pricing

Azure - Pricing

This post is a quick one on Azure Pricing. There's an Azure Pricing Calculator that helps you estimate the bill for a new VM. One element that was confusing me was the disk size included in the VM. What the heck was this? Free storage? The OS Disk, Data disk, what?!! See the 382GB below!

I ordered a few VMs sizes which came with different sized disks and from what I can figure out it related to the size of the TEMP disk is all. The huge VM above has a 384GB temp disk!! Haha. See below from the RDP session I checked it with:

So, while it's nice, it's not good for anything. The disk sizes don't even correlate to RAM:

Beats me why Microsoft are giving away temp disk storage?! The temp disk is wiped on a reboot if you don't know! Or if the Host fails. Or if you resize the VM. Or if you shutdown the VM......you get the idea?!!
Now this is for Windows. It's slightly different for Linux. But in any case, if you're working out pricing for a customer, this might help explain things that don't make sense to you!!
The price is included with the OS disk in the base VM price, so you add on any additional Data Disks after that....

Hope this helps someone who is similarly confused!!