DEV Community

Tolu Iyoriobhe
Tolu Iyoriobhe

Posted on

4 2

What's the Azure TCO calculator

TCO - Total Cost of Ownership

The TCO calculator helps to estimate the cost savings of operating a system on Azure over time compared to operating in an on-premises datacentre.
The TCO calculator works in 3 steps:

  • Defining your workloads

  • Adjust assumptions, and

  • View report

Let's see how we can compare an on-premise sample workload costs versus Azure using the TCO calculator

- Define your workloads

  1. In a browser, go to TCO Calculator page

  2. Under Define your workloads, select Add server workload to add details of your on-premises server infrastructure

  3. Under Servers, set the value for each listed below
    Server 1 detailsServer 1 image

  4. Select Add server workload to make a row for a new servers workload definition
    server 2 detailsServer 2 image

  5. Under Storage, select Add storage and specify the below settings
    Storage paneStorage pane image

  6. Under Networking, set Outbound bandwidth to 15TB
    Outbound bandwidth

  7. Select Next

- Adjust assumptions
Explore the options and make any adjustments that you require to match your on-premises environment but here we would only specify the currency and leave the remaining fields at their default values
At the top of the page, select your currency
Euro

- Review the report
Update the timeframe and region with the settings below
Timeframe
To modify any information provided, scroll to the bottom of the page and select Back

  • As you scroll to the bottom of the page, you will see a comparison of running your workloads in the datacentre versus on Azure.

  • To save or print a PDF copy of the report, select Download.

cost

  • If you need to make adjustments, you can revisit the TCO Calculator to generate a fresh report

Image of Timescale

🚀 pgai Vectorizer: SQLAlchemy and LiteLLM Make Vector Search Simple

We built pgai Vectorizer to simplify embedding management for AI applications—without needing a separate database or complex infrastructure. Since launch, developers have created over 3,000 vectorizers on Timescale Cloud, with many more self-hosted.

Read more

Top comments (0)

Sentry image

See why 4M developers consider Sentry, “not bad.”

Fixing code doesn’t have to be the worst part of your day. Learn how Sentry can help.

Learn more