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Microsoft Defender for Cloud is a Cloud Security Posture Management and workload protection solution that finds weak spots across your cloud configuration, helps strengthen the overall security posture of your environment, and can protect workloads across multi-cloud and hybrid environments from evolving threats.
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US government entities are eligible to purchase Azure Government services from a licensing solution provider with no upfront financial commitment or directly through a pay-as-you-go online subscription.
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. An eNF will not be issued.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud helps you protect resources across Azure, other clouds, and on-premises through its Free tier and enhanced security capabilities. The Microsoft Defender for Cloud Free Tier includes continuous assessment and security recommendations, as well as Secure Score for Azure and AWS environments.
When you enable Microsoft Defender for Cloud, we automatically enrol and start protecting all your resources unless you explicitly decide to opt-out. For any resource that is protected by Defender for Cloud, you will be charged per the pricing model below.
Microsoft Defender for Cloud is free for the first 30 days. Any usage beyond 30 days will be automatically charged as per the pricing scheme below.
| Resource Type | Price |
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| Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 1 | $- |
| Microsoft Defender for Servers Plan 2 |
$- Included data - 500 MB/day |
| Microsoft Defender for Containers | $- 4 |
| Microsoft Defender for SQL on Azure-connected databases | $-2 |
| Microsoft Defender for SQL outside Azure | $-3 |
| Microsoft Defender for MySQL | $-/Instance/month |
| Microsoft Defender for PostgreSQL | $-/Instance/month |
| Microsoft Defender for MariaDB | $- |
| Microsoft Defender for Azure Cosmos DB5, 6 | $- per 100 RUs/hour |
| Microsoft Defender for Storage1 | $-7 |
| Microsoft Defender for App Service | $- |
| Microsoft Defender for Key Vault | $-/10K transactions |
| Microsoft Defender for ARM | $-/1M API calls |
| Microsoft Defender for DNS | $-/1M Queries |
Additional data charges for virtual machines only
| Overage Meter | Price |
|---|---|
| Additional data uploaded over included daily data | See Azure Monitor pricing page for data ingestion pricing |
| Additional retention beyond one month | See Azure Monitor pricing page for data ingestion pricing |
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Frequently asked questions
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No. Subscriptions that had either Microsoft Defender for Kubernetes or Microsoft Defender for Container registries enabled prior to December 6, 2021 do not need to upgrade to the new Microsoft Defender for Containers offering. However, you will see an upgrade option inside the portal.
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Customers who currently use Microsoft Defender for Kubernetes will continue to be able to use it for subscriptions where the service is already enabled.
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Customers who currently use Microsoft Defender for Container registries will continue to be able to use it for subscriptions where the service is already enabled.
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Yes. The new Microsoft Defender for Containers plan contains all features that were previously available via Microsoft Defender for Kubernetes and Microsoft Defender for container registries. In addition, the new plan contains a large set of new and improved capabilities and has removed previously existing dependencies on Microsoft Defender for Servers. Brand new features include Kubernetes-native deployment, advanced threat protection with Kubernetes-aware AI analytics and anomaly detection, and runtime visibility of vulnerabilities.
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A transaction is an API call with a request payload size of up to 1,000 data points included in the time series. Each increment of 1,000 data points will be counted as an additional transaction. For example, an API call with request payload size == 2,050 is 3 transactions. The maximum request payload size is 8,640 data points. Each data point in time series is a time stamp/numerical value pair.
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For Azure Cosmos DB Serverless accounts, Microsoft Defender for Cosmos DB uses a conversion factor of 0.00003125, to convert serverless request units (RUs) to provisioned throughput. For example: An Azure Cosmos DB Serverless account with usage of 215 million RUs per month, will be charged $- for Microsoft Defender for Cosmos DB (215 million RUs * 0.00003125 * $- per 100 RU per second).
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