Azure Arc – Preise

For customers who want to simplify complex and distributed environments across on-premises, edge and multicloud, Azure Arc enables deployment of Azure services anywhere and extends Azure management to any infrastructure.

Pricing details

Azure Arc extends management and services from Azure to any infrastructure. Azure Arc functionality is offered at no additional cost and is applicable to both Arc enabled servers and Arc enabled Kubernetes. This includes control plane functionality below:

• Attaching servers and Kubernetes clusters to Azure
• Resource inventory and organization through Azure resource groups and tags
• Indexing and searching through Azure Resource Graph
• Access and security through RBAC and subscriptions
• Environments and automation through templates and extensions

Azure Arc enabled servers

In addition to the included capabilities, Azure Update Management is offered for servers outside of Azure at no additional cost. Add-on Azure management services (Azure Policy guest configuration, Azure Monitor, Azure Defender etc.) are charged for Azure Arc enabled servers when enabled.

Azure Policy guest configuration

Azure Policy guest configuration offers the ability to define and audit compliance configuration of servers in your environment such as password policy, encryption protocols and members of admin group, so that you can track compliance of organizational requirements.

Billing is based on the number of servers registered with the service and have one or more guest configurations assigned to them. Billing is pro-rated hourly.

Azure Policy guest configuration includes access to the configuration change tracking feature offered by Azure Automation.

Charges for Azure Policy guest configuration will go into effect starting February 1, 2021.

Any other Azure service that is attached, for example Azure Defender or Azure Monitor, will be charged as per the pricing for that service.

Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes

Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes enables customers to connect and configure Kubernetes clusters across customer datacenters, edge locations, and multi-cloud.

Any number of Kubernetes clusters can be connected and organized in the Azure Portal at no additional cost. Like Arc enabled servers, add-on Azure management services, like Kubernetes Configuration, are charged when enabled.

Kubernetes Configuration

Kubernetes Configuration delivers configuration management and application deployment using GitOps. With this capability, cluster admins can declare their cluster configuration and applications in Git. The development teams can then use pull requests and the tools they are familiar with (existing DevOps pipelines, Git, Kubernetes manifests, Helm charts) to easily deploy applications onto Azure Arc enabled Kubernetes clusters and make updates in production. The GitOps agents listen to changes and facilitate automated rollbacks if these changes result in system divergence from the source of truth. Billing is based on the number of vCPUs/hour in the cluster and is charged monthly. Clusters incur a single charge for configuration management no matter how many repositories are connected.

Clusters can function without a constant connection to Azure. When disconnected, each cluster’s charge will be determined based on the last known number of vCPUs that were registered with Azure Arc. The vCPU count is updated every 5 minutes when connected. The first 6 vCPUs are included at no cost.

Charges for Kubernetes Configuration will go into effect starting April 1^st, 2021. You can read more about this service on our docs page.

Other management services such as Azure Policy for Kubernetes, Azure Monitor for Containers and Azure Defender are in preview so there is no cost to use the service at this time. However, for Azure Policy for Kubernetes and Azure Monitor for Containers, any data retained by those services may incur charges as per the pricing for that service.

Azure Arc enabled data services

In the current preview phase, Azure Arc enabled data services is offered at no additional cost.

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