Azure Analysis Services Pricing
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Azure Analysis Services delivers enterprise-grade BI semantic modelling capabilities with the scale, flexibility and management benefits of the cloud. Azure Analysis Services helps you to transform complex data into actionable insights. Azure Analysis Services is built on the proven analytics engine in Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services.
Azure Government is available to US government entities to purchase physically and network isolated instances of Azure Government from a Licensed Azure Government Service Provider or Partner with no up-front financial commitment or fee. Or, you can sign up for a free Azure Government Trial.
Important: The price in R$ is merely a reference; this is an international transaction and the final price is subject to exchange rates and the inclusion of IOF taxes and an eNF will not be issued.
Azure Germany is available to customers and partners doing business in the European Union (EU), European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and United Kingdom (UK), and provides data residency in Germany with additional levels of control and data protection. You can also sign up for a free Azure Germany trial.
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Pricing details
The total cost of Azure Analysis Services depends on the chosen tier and the instance.
Azure Analysis Services is available in Developer, Basic and Standard tiers. The key feature differentiators between the tiers are in the table below:
| Feature | Developer | Basic | Standard |
|---|---|---|---|
| Perspectives | |||
| Multiple partitions | |||
| DirectQuery Storage mode | |||
| Translations | |||
| Dax calculations | |||
| Row-level Security | |||
| In-mem storage | |||
| Back up and restore |
Within each tier, the price of instances vary by the processing power, QPUs, and memory size.
Developer tier
The Developer Tier is recommended for evaluation, development and test scenarios. It includes all the functionality of the Standard Tier but limited in processing power, QPUs and memory size. The Developer Tier doesn’t offer an SLA.
| Instance | QPUs | Memory (GB) | SLA | Price1 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Developer | 20 | 3 | None | $- |
Basic Tier
The Basic Tier is a general-purpose tier and recommended for production solutions with small Tabular models, limited user concurrency and simple data refresh requirements.
| Instance | QPUs | Memory (GB) | Price1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| B1 | 40 | 10 | $- |
| B2 | 80 | 20 | $- |
Standard Tier
The Standard Tier is best suited for mission critical production applications that require elastic user-concurrency and have rapidly growing data models. It has advanced data refresh capability that helps customers achieve near real-time data model updates.
S8 and S9 instances are currently available in preview. The prices below reflect GA prices, which will be effective starting July 1, 2017. Preview prices (50% discount) will be effective prior to July 1, 2017.
| Instance | QPUs | Memory (GB) | Price1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| S0 | 40 | 10 | $- |
| S1 | 100 | 25 | $- |
| S2 | 200 | 50 | $- |
| S4 | 400 | 100 | $- |
| S8 | 320 | 200 | $- |
| S9 | 640 | 400 | $- |
Dev/Test Offer coming soon
Azure Analysis Services offers Dev/Test pricing on the Standard Tier for development and testing applications. The Dev/Test rate is a significant discount from regular Standard Tier prices, and available through the following Azure offers:
These offers are only available for use by active Visual Studio subscribers.
Support and SLA
- Free billing and subscription management support.
- Guaranteed SLA for Basic and Standard Tier. Read the SLA
FAQs
- What is a QPU?
A Query Processing Unit (QPU) in Azure Analysis Services is a unit of measure for relative computational performance for query and data processing. A Standard Tier S4 instance (offers 400 QPUs) provides 4 times the computational performance of a Standard Tier S1 instance (offers 100 QPUs). As a rule of thumb, one virtual core approximates to roughly 20 QPUs, although the exact performance depends on the underlying hardware and the generation of hardware used.
- How often can I change the service tier or performance level of a single instance?
Customers can change performance levels within a tier. For example, customers can move from an S2 to S4 seamlessly or vice versa. Customers can also move from a lower tier to a higher tier but NOT vice versa. For example, you can move from Basic to Standard tier or Developer to Basic tier, but you can’t move from a Standard to Basic tier or Basic to Developer tier.
- How does the usage of Azure Analysis Services appear on my bill?
Azure Analysis Services bills on a predictable hourly rate based on both the service tier and performance level for a single instance. Actual usage is computed to the second and billed hourly. For example, if an instance exists for 12 hours and 15 minutes in a month, your bill will show usage of 12.25 hours. If your instance is only active for 6 minutes, your bill will show usage of 0.1 hour.
- What happens when I pause my service?
No charges apply when you pause your instance.
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